On the importance of the study of anatomy. From the Westminster Review, with some additional remarks

On the importance of the study of anatomy. From the Westminster Review, with some additional remarks

Smith, Southwood, 1788-1861

Human dissection

Anatomy

Pamphlets

This pamphlet on anatomy and dissection laws is attributed to English sanitary reformer, Thomas Southwood Smith, who would later perform the anatomical dissection of Jeremy Bentham in 1832. The "additional remarks," included in the reprinting of the pamphlet in Boston, urges the proper study of human anatomy by dissection, and adds, "The number of medical students in Boston the last season was about one hundred and thirty. If anatomy could not be learnt at home more than one hundred of these students would remain ignorant, for want of means to go to foreign countries. What miseries would their ignorance produce!" Thomas Dwight noted on this copy that he believed it likely his grandfather, John Collins Warren, was responsible for the addition.

Pamphlet on the importance of anatomy from the Westminster Review, by Thomas Southwood Smith, with additions attributed by Thomas Dwight to John Collins Warren

Smith, Southwood, 1788-1861

Wells and Lilly

1825

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Gift of Dr. Frederic T. Lewis to the Library of Harvard Medical School, 1950