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Show SALTING DOWN CORPSES. The popular idea that the ghouls of the medical profession never hunt for their "Subjects" save in winter, when decomposition ia not so rapid as in summer, is upset by this horrifying tale, told by tho Louisville Commercial. Commer-cial. "The stock of subjects is largely made up in Buuimor, and secured for tho winter by thq simple process of packing in salt. In several of our medical institutions aro large zinc or galvanized iron vats, made impervious to tho assaults of chemicals of any description. de-scription. The subjects are brought in from nearly ail tbe burying grounds about the city, at a nominal cost; they don't rate high in summer, and the resurrectionist regards the bu.-inces as dull. We believe that somo arsenic preparation is injected into the carotid car-otid arteries, after which the bodies nrrt eoverod with Bait, and uiled in layers in tho great vault. One modioli modi-oli institution has a stock of about thirty well-preserved naked subjects, which will be takon out and cut up in the fall and winter for tho benefit ol' tho incipient saw-bone?, who attend the collee. Tho medical colleges in Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Ann Harbor. Louisville, and other okics, change subjects with each other when one or the other is short of material. They aro generally shipped in barrels, sal tod and prepared, liy this exchange ideutitication becomes impossible, if such a thing wero attempted. These subjects are shipped or exhumed at such hours when suspicion would be , less liable to be aroused, and sunset is oftener used than any other hour. We suppose it is necessary to make use of tho human body after death for the beneht of science, but there is something some-thing repulsive in this saving process." |