A Visit to a Dissection Room: 1887

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The Victorian Book of the Dead blog shares a transcript of an article that appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer on February 13, 1887. In it, a reporter shares his first-person account of his visit to a dissecting room in a local medical college.

“This story of the dissecting-room is a very old one, but people never grow tired of it,” the article begins.

Indeed.