Sourcing Dead Bodies For Medical Dissection Before It Was Legal

📍Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱Social and other ways to explore Texas History Dr. Paul Boor joins me on Galveston Unscripted to discuss his historical fiction, The Ice Merchant. I wanted to have Dr. Boor on to discuss how bodies were sourced for medical dissection in the late 1800s, when medical dissection was not technically "legal". From the mid 1800s, medical schools in Galveston acquired bodies for research, although the methods of acquisit...