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The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Progress of medicine in Japan . (search)
Progress of medicine in Japan.
--The introduction of foreign customs into Japan has induced the Japanese to overcome their horror at the mutilation of the dead by dissection.
A letter from Japan says:
"How earnest is the desire for imprJapan has induced the Japanese to overcome their horror at the mutilation of the dead by dissection.
A letter from Japan says:
"How earnest is the desire for improvement is clearly shown in this, that in spite of all the deep-rooted prejudices against touching and mutilating a dead body, the authorities at last gave way to the much pressed request of the Dutch physician, and permitted the dissection of a criJapan says:
"How earnest is the desire for improvement is clearly shown in this, that in spite of all the deep-rooted prejudices against touching and mutilating a dead body, the authorities at last gave way to the much pressed request of the Dutch physician, and permitted the dissection of a criminal who had been beheaded for some great crimes.
Yet, in order to prevent any possible popular demonstration, the body was dissected on a high rock, of difficult approach, all paths leading to it being guarded, in addition, by soldiers.
A story, more, it was stated that the criminal who thus did, even after death, a good thing for the sake of his countrymen, should receive a burial in sacred ground, and have a tablet erected, both of which honors are generally denied to criminals." Japan"