Use of the Dead to the Living

Name: Use of the Dead to the Living
Author: Southwood Smith

by Southwood Smith

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Chris Curnow, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2018-12-12

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Public domain in the USA.

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Surgery Mackenzie, William, 1791-1868. An appeal to the public and to the legislature, on the necessity of affording dead bodies to the schools of anatomy by legislative enactment Dead bodies (Law)Human anatomy -- Study and teaching Medicine -- Study and teaching

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Southwood Smith

1788–1861

A doctor and public health reformer, he helped change how 19th-century Britain thought about disease, sanitation, and crowded city life. His writing brought medical ideas into public debate and pushed for cleaner, healthier living conditions for ordinary people.

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