10: Who stole grandma’s body?!: The Doctor’s Riots of 1788
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New York Wanted to Be Like Massachusetts
Back in 17 seventies, when you died, you had to be buried. New york wanted laws like they had in massachusetts. But because of all ithe religious reasons, and also just the idea that people thought doctors cutting into bodies was honestly, really creepy and gross, the city was just like, no, nobody's for you. So this left professors at king's college with three choices. One, give up on teaching anatomy altogether. Two, teach theory about the human body, so basically just guessing. Or three, they could steal some bodies themselves.
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