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undersigned submit to you, Gentlemen, whether your duty to the 

 pubKck does not demand that her body be restored. We are un- 

 willing to believe (sic) that Gentlemen so respectable as the 

 Faculty of the Woodstock Medical School would countenance 

 in the smallest degree an outrage of the kind— and although we 

 fully believe that the true character of the outrage was unknown 

 to you at the time, and would be indignantly reprobated by you 

 at any time, yet we can have little doubt that your endeavours 

 to procure the restoration of the body would be successful, and 

 probably would be the sole means of effecting it. 



"We ask, therefore, your assistance and believe it will be 

 granted, as due to justice, to the feelings of a family lacerated 

 for the means, the atrocious motive of gain, to public opinion and 

 to the character of your institution. 



Yours respectfully," 



At Woodstock, the cost of cadavers was $15 which sum con- 

 stituted no profit to the school because the wages to the resur- 

 rection men or demonstrators in anatomy were relatively high. 

 No fee was charged for the use of the dissecting-room. Any anato- 

 mizing was completed in seven to ten days because embalming 

 was unknown in such a rural school as Woodstock and searches 

 by the officers of the law were always impending (Waite, '45c). 



