Star. — 1829-07-17 (London, England)

JOIIN BULL—indeed. we may as well give the title of it at once—" A Letter to Jou BULL on the Dissection of his Body." Dundee, then, ought to go on. Facilities for its performuce should be afforded to an medical practitioner, while they are students, in order that they may-acquire the knowledge ; and while they are engaged in practice, in order that they may retain what they have learnt, improve their tact, and extend still further the science they profess. The subject kaoline command so fully of late. that it is scarcely necessary to sheen* that the present mode of earrying on dimedon is extremely objectinable. The bodies that are obtained for that purpose are in an offensive state, and often so muck decomposd as to be of little utility. Their price is so high as to bold out a temptation to the medical student to three through his education with as !bile diuectioo as possible; and it operates en the majority of established practkinervt,se as to deter than altogether from the practice. The supply too of these imitative and deteriorated bodies is quite inadequate to the actual domed, and infinitely below what science requires. The practice of exhumation, with its high pay and lenient punishment, sends to encourage a race of lawless des. peruke. who are described even by the surgeons employing dime. I as the wont sort of charactem, and by oca mother as thieves and burglars. Them serious grievances have been long Ws and often emplaned of, Out with your usual 'spines's' you have tensed a deaf ear to whatever has ben said epos th. wbject. At kitsch nether little item has been added to the inconveniences of the present system, namely, that it holds out $ powerkl temptation to the commissiou of murder. I sie sat mess to Wren that see half is true that youhave beard on this subjess. Few men, if any, have bees Flamed in the altuadoo of Berke sad Hue. Those who have 'ranched St bodies ban always hen msurrectivi-inen. knows as such by their employers; sad those were, I believe, without exception. 'weevils of murder because they hada safe.. mores. Is is an appeal they to your passions toenail's the alas* a' Berke as TOT that has ben frequent or is lately to be ekes repute.). With the escapism of what came oat on Ms trial there is use the slightest reason to be. neve murder keener bees perpetrated for the price of the victim's body. But. sir, this is a (1.-goad exception. I have so win us appeal either to your passion or prejudices. but I must remark that you are wen to be chary of shedding blood, and that the briskest trait is your character has ever been the anxiety with which you watched over human Wls and the vehement lodigoatiou and an. corn severity with which yowhave honied dove those who have attack it. It is no Lusty so my that you an as human u you are brave; sad that you may fairly lads* a sating vanity is the reneetima that year Least beats with • stronger sympathy fur your fellow men than is manifested in your neighbours. Toe ought not thou to be misled wish the rellectioe that your indulges/it in prejudice will sot be followed by frequent murder. " Lay not t:itt nattering section a yoar seal," that the mains of lowa decree. don will be wanting because the sergeon will is future be careful Shay sle we* yosiliwiy bane the diatoms betweeu a body dead of disorder and one which has been strangled. Prom dm is time you hear ef these things being repassed, and on your bead shall he the crime. Consider human natures and madder the Insaluiss of the temptation. Hen hays bees murdered bachaeously fee a few shilling*, and the body left reposed to scrutiny. and busing evident marks of ',Went death. Here any ?wads are soloed. tad. the body being removed, the public remains sot only igaossat of the mode of death, but nee of the death altogether. I. k sot stem that in the amen of things the crime will endow I am sure I used say so more so Waving you that something must be done, but I have still to show why that something mast hedime byre. I know you dislike this subject; thse,:ios would fain blink its consideration. and leave it to be seeded by she managers of your estate sad the surpass la the quietest owner. But if I' wasted any reason against this, your own cosdeet has furnished me with one; for the very Ins step these pontlemes attempted So take you began to grumble. The fact is. in legislating on this point two series of leas are required to be knows—lkst, what is necessary for the demands of science; and secondly. what is the be* way of meeting your feelings in complying wick those demands...The surgeons may be considered pretty good iodise of the liras point, though not so much so bat that their opinions must he mach more to be relied on when they have bees universally sad riLlicly discussed, than when their agitation bas been mined to surgical meetings and journals, or to the nomination of a few tarpons before the managers. But as to the second point, it is quite eke/ that neither surgeon nor manager can judge so perfectly what' measure will suit your feelings and prejudices as yourself, and no one can inform them on this subject except yourself. Speak oat then—tell them what you want. If it be your pleasure that exhumation, thieving.resurrectin-ones, bad surgery, and foul murders shall continue, signify that wish to your house at managers. If you like to banish all education, with its emoluments and advantages, to France and Germany, say so. If you will not give op the bodies of the poor for dissection, whose will you give op ? Speak. We are bound to hear. In order to assist you in answering this question I Will sow unfold, as far as Ism able, the whole of the case, in all its bearings, WITT IT TO SS DONS?  All these alternatives present tbemeeleee-1. Forbidding dissection altogether, and sending all students to foreign lands for instruction. it. Giving up the bodies of suicides and all persons executed, or otherwise dying whilst suffering the punishments of the law. 3. Making use of the bodies of surgeons, either with or without those of the preceding class. 4. Giving up the bodies for dissection of those who die unclaimed in the workhouses. S. Legalising the sale of dead bodies. O. Legalising exhumation. 7.