Mr. Warburton's anatomy bill : thoughts on its mischievous tendency : with suggestions for an entirely new one, founded upon an available anti-septic process, in an appeal to medical practitioners, students of anatomy, and the public at large, on the injury to medical science and the hinderances to the decent interment of unclaimed pauper bodies now delivered up for anatomical "examination," consequent upon the rejection of such a process / by William Roberts.

  • Roberts, W. (William)
Date:
1843
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Credit: Mr. Warburton's anatomy bill : thoughts on its mischievous tendency : with suggestions for an entirely new one, founded upon an available anti-septic process, in an appeal to medical practitioners, students of anatomy, and the public at large, on the injury to medical science and the hinderances to the decent interment of unclaimed pauper bodies now delivered up for anatomical "examination," consequent upon the rejection of such a process / by William Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    plete as it was possible to make it, and my claim therefore irresistible by Mr. Spring Rice, who, during a year and a-half had entertained the question, that gentleman proceeded to transfer Mr. Warburton^s Report, with all the other papers which from time to time had been entrusted to him, from his own office, to that of Lord John Russell, then Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department. Of this proceeding Mr. WARBURTON,in a letter he addressed to me, speaks with surprise and regret.* By this management Mr. Spring Rice, ivho had been a party to the re-opening of the negociation, and whose call upon Mr. Warburton for a Report, had weighed with me as the grand inducement to give up my secret, attempted to get rid of his responsibility at the critical moment; and Lord John Russell, overlooking how deeply his colleague the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer had, in the interval, involved the honor of Her Majesty's Government, and also overlooking his own opinion in favor of my process, as recorded in 1836, and having now additional and the strongest evidence before him, again put a negative on my claim. Mr. Warburton's explanation of his Lordship's motives,—though somewhat cautiously expressed, is sufficiently intelligible: ^'I should conjecture, that it is the representations of gentlemen who are opposed to summer teaching, that have prevailed against you.'' I have now brought down my narrative to the period of your accession to office. Shortly after that took place, I drew your attention to the fact, that a number of documents bearing upon my case, and including Mr. Warburton's Report, made in 1838, were in your department; and that while that Report clearly and fully estabhshed my claims, they had been passed over by the late administration. Mr. Warburton's Report is the chief document upon which I * See Appendix (D), F2