Show I DISPO OF PAUPER DEAD The suggestion of the tile Salt Lake Medical society b bas as as o outlined by bJ Dr Kerr in this paper some sonic weeks U ago that ago that the tue Le Legislature pass a fl law g giving ging ing the pau pauper pau per pel dead to the society foil for dissection purposes is in III inline inline line with i l laws law on oh tl the e statute te books bools of f many any other othel States State The TIce profession in U If alt Lake is right up to toU U date i iii in l most particulars not riot a few of our physicians ician being graduates of some of 1 the he leading colleges of ofU U the worl world But nut in iu their efforts to keep leep pace with modern and amI progress they U are arc often obliged oblige to go it second Thc They are forced force to experiment on live cadavers so to speak where n ii dead one would do just as at asPli well weB and with no risk either eithel to the corpse corise An Au animate patient sometimes some some- times objects to a hypodermic shotgun where nn mi inanimate one wouldn't so say a i word It is next to sille to thoroughly ShI study J morbid anatomy or oi gro gross s p pathology gJ from the live subject and it is quite out of the question to obtain the consent of relatives and friends to cut up a family corpse In III Inthis 1 this hi dill dilemma it is a common practice t to go body snatching on the assumption that the end justifies the means But where the pauper dead are turned over cr to the thle medical societies these cadavers generally generally gen gen- suffice for all purposes of stu study and the illegal business of grave gra robbing ceases There are numerous nu iiii- iiii morons unclaimed bodies which could be used The Salt Lake Medical society would properly bury these these not not e-not not burn hurll them as the wicked t types pes had bad it i.- i. the other da day Doubtless the proposed bill will meet with opposition from the mossbacks s who have havethe havethe the s me respect for the insensate clod as the Chinese Chi nese physicians have han who guess at the circulatory circulator U from actual anatomical system rather than learn demonstration It is the same class clas ruled by lJJ like prejudice who oppose e vaccination and who of course denounce cremation But en even 11 the best of our physicians feel the need of exact knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of ofa a part lart b before attempting an operation and this knowledge ge t nl ii be obtained only by hy actual observation ob 01 all and c In as common a bit bitof bitof bitof of surgery lJ Iy as itS t for instance it is necessary necessary s. s sary to know with the exactness of a plummet the precise situation of every important nerve and ami blood U- U esse vessel To cut one Olle single line beyond the true point would be he as fatal as to lo inch out of the wa way If the work is js first done by hJ practice on a cada cadaver cadar r the operation on the live lie subject promises success Other Otherwise it may be but guess gness work vork Tho Tue ad a advancement advance advance- U ment of scientific surgical work vork in iii Salt Fait Lala aDs i for some such bill bin as our medical society proposes It i i is careful study on the part JaIt of intelligent n J legislators rs |