Charles Knowlton completes his examinations and becomes a medical doctor. In his handwritten "dissertation" (which you can still see at Dartmouth College) he urges doctors to donate their bodies to dissection, in order to break the public fear of the body-snatcher or "resurrectionist".
Knowlton Biography Chapter 13
Knowlton Biography Chapter 13
Knowlton Biography Chapter 13
Charles Knowlton completes his examinations and becomes a medical doctor. In his handwritten "dissertation" (which you can still see at Dartmouth College) he urges doctors to donate their bodies to dissection, in order to break the public fear of the body-snatcher or "resurrectionist".