198 HUMAN DISSECTION. ITS DRAMA AND STRUGGLE 



After graduating, La Terriere returned to Quebec where he 

 carried on a private practice. This incident indicates that stu- 

 dents were active in body snatching about forty years prior to the 

 passage of the Anatomy Act in 1831. However, encouraged by 

 reports of the success of resurrectionists in Great Britain, certain 

 men began to appear on the scene who were willing to produce 

 interred bodies for the right kind of remuneration (Harrington, 

 '05). 



The pace John Warren set for himself in attempting to 

 maintain his private practice, his professional and social duties, 

 as well as other personally imposed standards, began to tell on 

 him. He requested in 1793, that the Corporation allow John 

 Fleet (M.B. degree, 1788), an assistant, to perform dissections, 

 which was granted. Still later, 1808, he suggested that an ad- 

 junct professor be appointed to assist him and that he should be 

 paid an identical salary and have similar duties. His son, John 

 Collins Warren, who had received his medical training in Europe, 

 was appointed to this post on April 27th of that year. Up to that^ 

 time, the elder Warren had made his course at Harvard, the best] 

 in America. After a long-standing heart condition and a full butj 

 somewhat difficult life, he succumbed on April 4, 1815, at thej 

 age of sixty-one. 



John Collins Warren, like his father, graduated from Har- 

 vard. This was in 1797, at the age of nineteen. He then studied] 

 under his parent for one year. Following this, he spent time in] 

 Europe: in London, Edinburgh, Holland, Belgium and Paris. 



He began his anatomical activities in Boston in 1805 by| 

 opening a dissecting-room at 49 Marlborough Street (now about] 

 400 Washington St.). As mentioned previously, he was appointed] 

 adjunct professor of anatomy and surgery at Harvard in 1809; 

 and head of the department in 1815. He retained this positioni 

 for thirty-two years. All told, he was active as a surgeon-anatomistj 

 for forty-five years. 



John C. Warren was regarded as a superior dissector, posses-j 

 sive of an excellent personality, strict with himself and others! 

 and devoted to anatomy both as an art and science. He probably] 



