Annals of medical history . n,and attacked the jail whitlur the Doctorshad lied. Seven rioteis were killed andseveral more wounded belore the distur-bance was quelled by the militia. Probably 284 Annals of Aledical History- horn this riot, however, came the first lawto aid Anatomy, when New York, in 1-89made it lawful for the courts to add dis-section to the death penalty in cases ofmurder, arson and burglary. In i88 also,Wiesenthals School in Baltimore was in-vaded by a mob, and the body of themurderer, Cassidy, which was being dis-sected, was taken from the gentlemen whowere then studying an
Annals of medical history . n,and attacked the jail whitlur the Doctorshad lied. Seven rioteis were killed andseveral more wounded belore the distur-bance was quelled by the militia. Probably 284 Annals of Aledical History- horn this riot, however, came the first lawto aid Anatomy, when New York, in 1-89made it lawful for the courts to add dis-section to the death penalty in cases ofmurder, arson and burglary. In i88 also,Wiesenthals School in Baltimore was in-vaded by a mob, and the body of themurderer, Cassidy, which was being dis-sected, was taken from the gentlemen whowere then studying anatomy and surgery.^*In 1778, the state of Virginia had stoppedthe dissection of executed criminals, per-mission for which had previously been aprerogative of the Royal Governors, andthe Massachusetts Act of 1784 was appar-ently designed to discourage duelling ratherthan to protect anatomy. In it, the coronerwas directed that he shall either bury thebodies of dead duellists without a cofTm,with a stake drove through the bodv. POKTKAIT OF \\ ILLIAM IlLNTtR U^ NuWI-OKT, R. I., PAINTED iiY Cosmo Alexandek, now in tiii; possession of A. F. IIUNTIK OF NlWPOKT. or shall deliver the body to any surgeon orsurgeons to be dissected and 1790 the first Congress of the UnitedStates passed a law similar to the New \ork law of I89; but it was not until 1831 thatany further advance was made, when-Massachusetts authorized the delivery tothe Anatomists of the unclaimed bodies of ^ P? 178^ [. /(t fi,,irer to Dr. S ii i r !• I \ \ T,Lkctires 6« Anatomy, ^ MlUW IFtRY. / 7\ T^^-ri^r^rrt^ Certificate of Attendance at Shippens lectures. deceased persons required to be buried atthe public expense. Even as late as this,howcNcr, coincident with the EnglishResurrectionists, it is told that Dr. Beckhad to drive a corpse from Albany toBoston, on account of the scarcity ofanatomical material. In the State of Penn-sylvania it was not until 1883 tha
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