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3. Accepted SJ7une 1987)
4. The eighteenth century philosopher and law reformer Jeremy Bentham still sits above ground, in his Sunday best. He died in 1832 and, in keeping with his doctrine of Utility, left his body for dissection. He expected to gain deathbed comfort from the thought that: "How little service soever it may have been in my power to render to mankind during my lifetime, I shall at least be not altogether useless after my death
5. Bodies for anatomical inquiry To ensure that his plan would be adopted Bentham arranged to bequeath his body to his "dear friend" Dr Thomas Southwood Smith, author of an influential article "Use of the dead to the living," which had appeared in the Westminster Review in 1824.5 At the time anatomy was in bad repute as a result of widespread grave robbery. There existed no legal source of bodies for dissection other than those of hanged;murderers. In all but the