A LADY WILLS HER BODY FOR DISSECTION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 253, 13 February 1877, Page 2

A LADY WILLS HER BODY FOR DISSECTION.

(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 Sur. geons on the state of the museum, that Bp 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 stated the object of her visit, and handed him a document, sealed, signed, and duly executed, to the following effect: —" This is the test will and testament of me. I appoint the president at the time of my 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 established, I direct that, in the my decease in the United Kingdom, mf executors shall give my body immediately

at', er my decease to the authorities of the K«>ya! College of Surgeons of England. I r .. <hat such My Shalt be completely dissected in the most thorough marvn- r inown to science. I desire hnat. all p<Mettle facilities shall be given for the inspection of such body in its various stages dissection by any person desiring to tn gpect it,, and more particularly by persons of the female sex. I also desire that any facts that may come to light in consequence of snch dissection, that may be new or in any other way advantageous to be nude public, should be published. I also desire that, after such dissection as aforesaid, my body shall be destroyed in [ the most economical and expeditions man ner possible, except that I should wish that some remnant thereof, if it can 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 body, the), 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, tHT♦>. The President having been requested to accept the trust, the proceedings will be duly reported to the Council on the IBth mat. tor confirmation.