On the absolute necessity of encouraging, instead of preventing or embarrassing the study of anatomy : with a plan to prevent violating the dormitories of the defunct : addressed to the legislature of Great Britain / by William Rowley.
- Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806.
- Date:
- 1795
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the absolute necessity of encouraging, instead of preventing or embarrassing the study of anatomy : with a plan to prevent violating the dormitories of the defunct : addressed to the legislature of Great Britain / by William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[ >i i Thus it has been fully proved of what confer quence the faience of anatomy is to the pra6lico of phyfic, furgcry, and midwifery, to Individuals, and to the community of every rank. The impe- diments to its cultivation, and fome general modes of removing them, have been intimated, and it is hoped that the Legiflature, and mankind in general, will attentively and ferioutly confider, and weigh the important truths advanced. Princes and go■^ vcrnments cannot fliew jj. more afFc6tionate con^ cern for the welfare of the people than by the en- couragement of every branch of knowledge that can alleviate themifery of difeafe i nor can there be conceived a more wanton barbarity than to check the progrefs, or fruftralc the humane offices of this falutary fcience. Thefe obfcr^'^ations have not originated in vir lionary hypothecs, nor ehimerical conceits, th6 offspring of unbridled fancy and inexperience; but from a lincere love of truth, a regard for the ho- nour of the medical profeflion, and from nearly forty years continued fludy and pra6lice in the healing art. The refledlions are not intended to vindicate, but to prevent or abolifh the modes of procuring fubjedts for anatomical inveftigation, which Ihock the feelings of humanity ; to apprize the IvCgiflature, and fociety at large, of the indif- penfable necelTity of enlarging, inftead of reftrain- ing anatomical lludles, and to fliew the pQofl eli- gible mode by ^yhich that important objedl is at^ - tainable. Other means might be, likcwife, devifed, fLi]d if any future opportunity fliould occur, in which a mores](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22282038_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
