Anatomy acts of California : a survey of former and present laws / by A.W. Meyer.

  • Meyer, Arthur William, 1873-
Date:
1935
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Credit: Anatomy acts of California : a survey of former and present laws / by A.W. Meyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ROY MOOBi'f COLLECTio * Reprint from California and Western Medicine, October, 1930. Volume XXXIII, No. 4, 450 Sutter Street, San Francisco ! O ANATOMY ACTS OF CALIFORNIA* A SURVEY OF FORMER AND PRESENT LAWS By A. W. Meyer, M. D. Stanford A NATOMY legislation in California in the past '^•“•differed only in details from that elsewhere. This was probably due to the fact that it was based on that of other states, and that social con¬ ditions here were similar to those elsewhere at the time the various laws were enacted. In Cali¬ fornia, as elsewhere, for a considerable time be¬ fore the dissection of the human dead was legal¬ ized, medical schools existed and human bodies were used for the instruction of students. Cooper Medical College was founded in 1858 and Toland in 1863, but the first anatomy act was not passed until 1870. Before that time the neces¬ sary bodies must have been obtained in a manner familiar to all acquainted with the history of anatomy or of medicine, for it had been made the duty of someone to bury all the dead not claimed by relatives or friends, and disinterment for pur¬ poses of dissection was expressly forbidden. Rules of Ancient Town Council of Edinburgh. It is regrettable that our American common¬ wealths did not follow the good example of the Town Council of Edinburgh who, when granting a charter to the Incorporated Surgeons and Bar¬ bers, provided “that every intrant should ‘knaw anatomea nature and complexioun of every mem¬ ber in manis bodie/ for which purpose we (the surgeons) may have anis in the yeir ane condamp- nit man efter he be deid to mak anatomea of quhairthrow we may have experience Ilk ane to * From the Department of Anatomy, Stanford Uni* versity. 1 A