Annals of medical history . from nine inthe morning with Mr. (Dr.) Brakenbury,Mr. Thomson, Butter, Hooper, Cragg,Pemberton, dissecting the middle-most olthe Indians executed the day before. X.,who taking the heart in hand, affirmed it tobe the stomach. Packard gives therecord of six different autopsies reported inNew England between the years 16-4 and1678, and Hartwell quotes from a MarylandOrder of Council what may well be theearliest autopsy performed in this countryby legal direction. In 1691, the celebratedautopsy on Governor Slaughter of NewYork was made, w hich for a long time waserroneo
Annals of medical history . from nine inthe morning with Mr. (Dr.) Brakenbury,Mr. Thomson, Butter, Hooper, Cragg,Pemberton, dissecting the middle-most olthe Indians executed the day before. X.,who taking the heart in hand, affirmed it tobe the stomach. Packard gives therecord of six different autopsies reported inNew England between the years 16-4 and1678, and Hartwell quotes from a MarylandOrder of Council what may well be theearliest autopsy performed in this countryby legal direction. In 1691, the celebratedautopsy on Governor Slaughter of NewYork was made, w hich for a long time waserroneously considered to be the first re- 271 272 Aitnals of Medical History corded autopsy in this country. GovernorSlaughter having incurred several severeenmities following the execution of a rioter,it was suspected that his sudden deathmight be due to poisoning. Dr. JohannesKerfbyle,- assisted by live physicians,was therefore ordered by the Council toexamine the body and reported that hedied of a defect in his blood and lungs. Portrait of Thomas Cadwalader (1708-1-779; in Posses-sion OF THE Pennsylvania Hospital. The Original,BY Charles Wilson Peale in 1770, is Owned by JohnCadwalader of Philadelphia. occasioned by some glutinous tough humorin the blood, which stopped the passagethereof and occasioned its settling in thelungs. This, Walsh,- who gives an excel-lent description of the event, has ingeniouslysuggested to be the seventeenth centurymanner of describing a pulmonary such accounts we may infer thai inseveral of the American colonics at least, apost-mortem examination to determine thecause of death was not an uncommon occur-rence in the seventeenth century. Of muchlater date (1750) was the well-known injec-tion and dissection, by Drs. Thomas Bard andPeter Middleton of New York, of the bodyof I lermannus Carroll, an executed criminal. for the instruction of the young men thenengaged in the study of medicine. \\ alshstates that they had offered a private course
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