A REMARKABLE BEQUEST.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 44, 20 February 1877, Page 4

A REMARKABLE BEQUEST.

The Royal College of Surgeons has received the following from a lady as a present (says the Court Journal): — " This is the last will and testament of me. I appoint the President at the time of ray decease, of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the executor of this my will. Believing that it is the duty of every member of the human family to devote their bodies after death to scientific examination until the principles of physiological science are throughly established, I direct that in the event of my decease in the United Kingdom my executor shall give ray body immediately afier tny deoease to the authorities of the Royal College^of Surgeons of England. I desire that such body shall be completely dissected in the most thorough manner known to science. I desire that all possible facilities shall be given for the inspection of such body in its various stages of dissection by any person desiring to inspect it, and more particularly by persons of the female sex. I also desire that any facts that may eome to light in consequence of such dissection that may be new, or in any other way advantageous to the public, should be published. I also desire that after such dissection as aforesaid, my body shall be destroyed in the most expeditioua aad economical and expeditious manner possible, except that I should wish that some remnant thereof) if it can be preserved in an innoxious state, should be preserved in the college and identified as a portion of my remains. I should also wish that if any of my friends should desire to have a remnant of my said body they should be at liberty to do so. Signed r— -." The document has been been legally drawn up by solicitors, and witnessed by their clerks.