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U. of Maryland Medical School's Antique Cadaver Found — on eBay

Susan Kinzie writes in The Washington Post:

When the University of Maryland's medical school opened 200 years ago, doctors had one big problem: They needed dead bodies, and there was no good way to get them.

In those early years, the school turned to grave robbing. More than a few corpses got yanked out of fresh dirt in nearby cemeteries and wound up on the dissection table for anatomy lessons.

So as U-Md. begins to celebrate its bicentennial and a distinguished history as the nation's oldest public medical school, it seems only fitting that one of the centuries-old cadavers has resurfaced.

In Michigan.

On eBay.

posted by Fergie @ 12/03/2006 03:20:00 PM