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Show BODY SNATCHING. U has been suggested ihat a remedy fur the abjmiuable practice 0 body-amUching, body-amUching, would be for the doctors to conseciate their bodies, when dead, 1 to Ecieuce and the dissecting ruoni. The number of medical and surgical gentlemen in the country is satficieut to ensure enough subjects for the instruction of medical schools. If the-doctors the-doctors do not die fast enough to supply the demands of students occasionally ft quack might be ecien-tiiicaliy ecien-tiiicaliy killed which would be im-, parting instruction in a new branch ol turgery without injury to society or! good morals. In soma instances the' families of the medical gentlemen might object to the body being mutilated, carved, boiled, stewed and wired by a lot of graceless scamps of studcnls; but if these families would not like to sec such a disposition ot tho remains, elill less do the families of those whose graves are ruthlessly and inhumanly robbed enjoy and relish the proceeding. There is no stealing that equals in horror and meanness that which despoila the Banctity of ttie tomb. It is sacrilegious and a'.rocious to desecrate and disturb the last resting place of tho dead. The crime seems more abominable when it is carried on and encouraged b; one of the most refined and enlightened en-lightened of tho professions. One einnol easily imsgine any thing more profane and horrifying to natural BJneibilitiei', than tho dragging from the grave the lifeless forma of thoso who were the ot jecis of tender love, and reepect, and openly exhibiting, I handling ind mutil-iliu.; them in tho dissecting rooms, Biiojecting them to the heartless Kil'cs and thoughtless sport of unfeelinj.' and semi-barbarous Btudents. That science must have the fiiibjecis for illustration and practical instruction no one willdeny, but these should not be stolen and especially (run the grave, where ihcy hare been lovingly buried. Tiie idea ihat medical people should bequeath iheir own bodies (or the purpose seems a good one, and just. It they nre eo much inspired with a love of ecienco and the profeeeion as to procure pro-cure the desecration ol tho graves of others for the purposes of science, they should certainly ba willing to permit their own "cloy" to contribute to the general good. |