Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to a Course of Demonstrative Anatomy: Delivered December 11, 1830
To this ultimate stage of human organization, society has ever attached a kind of sacred feeling. Among the ancients, superstition placed an almost insuperable barrier in the path of the anatomist; and while thousands of lives were reck lessly sacrificed to the purposes of ambition, the disciples of Hippocrates could scarcely procure one dead body to promote the healing art, and the cause of humanity. The slain lay in heaps on the field of battle, but superstitious usage forbade the approach of the anatomist.
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