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...JACK HEWSON...
...those existing in other States. The bodies of all indigents dying in hospitals, prisons, poorhouses, and public institutions of all kinds, with the exception of the bodies of victims of violence which must be autopsied by the coroner, are delivered to a State anatomical board, of which Dr. Addinell Hewson, Professor of Anatomy in Temple University Dental School, is secretary. Further exceptions are made in the cases of bodies of U. S. soldiers, sailors and marines, Pennsylvania militiamen, and travelers; and persons dying of "smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, bubonic plague, typhus, yellow fever, cholera, leprosy, anthrax, glanders, erysipelas. Alcoholics...
...bodies are shipped to the depot which Dr. Hewson manages in Philadelphia. There the bodies are injected with three gallons of fluid, greased, wrapped in paper and cloth, and refrigerated at 5° F. Dr. Hewson is proud that he preserves his cadavers so well that he can turn them over to relatives who occasionally appear two-and-a-half years after the subject's death. Such relatives always get the bodies they want, for the supply of cadavers now is so ample that no medical school or anatomical board will risk a quarrel for possession...
Pennsylvania's medical students use 1,000 bodies a year. Up to eight students may work on one corpse, sharing the laboratory costs. These vary from $17 to $22 a body, depending upon the expenses to which Dr. Hewson's board was put to collect, preserve and distribute the stock. After dissection, remnants are packed in plain boxes, prayed over, buried in a cemetery...
Sour and furtive Spinster Ella Lining suspected the relationship between Eleanor Steel and Mary Hewson; nobody else did. But Spinster Lining was right...