A LADY WILLS HER BODY FOR DISSECTION.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 194, 17 February 1877, Page 2

A LADY WILLS HER BODY FOR DISSECTION.

[from THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL.] Professor Flower, the able conservator of the Hunterian Museum, who is ever on the look-out for preparations to enrich the collection, and who some time ago expressed a regret in his annual report to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons on the state of the museum, that so few contributors sent pathological specimens, received lately, we hear, with no little surprise, a visit from a lady—who perhaps had seen the report in question, and who at once skated the object of her visit, and handed him a document, sealed, sighed, and duly executed, to the following effect : —“ This is the last will and testament of me. I appoint the president at the tiiho ol my decease of the Royal College of Burgeons 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 thoroughly established, I direct that, in the event of my decease in the United Kingdom, my executors shall give my body immediately after my decease to the authorities of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. I desire that such body shall bo completely dissected in the most thorough manner known to science. I desire that all possible facilities shall bo 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 come to light in consequence of such dissection, that may be now or in any other way advantageous to be made public, should be published, I also desire that, after such dissection as aforesaid, my body shall ho destroyed in the most 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 n;y body, they should be at liberty to do so.” The document was duly executed, and attested by an eminent firm of solicitors. It is dated 20th September, 187 G.