Chew, Robert
Person
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Facts leading up to the legislative act legalizing dissection of the human body: compiled from data kept by William Smith Forbes, M.D., professor of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, of the grave robbing of Lebanon Cemetery
Collection
Identifier: MSS 467
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook contains material related to the case surrounding the grave robbing at Lebanon Cemetery in Philadelphia and the subsequent Anatomy Act in Pennsylvania. Also included are notes (1880-1881) acknowledging receipt of museum specimens, reports and lists of bodies delivered to medical schools (1881), and W. S. Forbes' History of the Anatomy-Act of Pennsylvania (1898).
Dates:
1879-1898; 1935-1937
Found in:
Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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Facts leading up to the legislative act legalizing dissection of the human body: compiled from data kept by William Smith Forbes, M.D., professor of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, of the grave robbing of Lebanon Cemetery
