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==== University of Pennsylvania Medical School ==== The University of Pennsylvania was the first medical school in America in the 18th century.<ref name="MONTGOMERY 1966 374β393">{{Cite journal |last=Montgomery |first=Horace |date=1966 |title=A Body Snatcher Sponsors Pennsylvania's Anatomy Act |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24621865 |journal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=374β393 |doi=10.1093/jhmas/XXI.4.374 |jstor=24621865 |issn=0022-5045|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In 1762, [[John Morgan (physician)|John Morgan]] and [[William Shippen Jr.]] founded the medical department of [[University of Pennsylvania]]. Shippen put an advertisement in the [[Pennsylvania Gazette]] in November 1762 announcing his lectures about the "art of dissecting, injections, etc." The cost was "five pistoles." In 1765, his house was attacked by a mob, claiming the doctor had desecrated a church's burying ground. The doctor denied this and made known that he only used bodies of "suicides, executed felons, and now and then one from the [[Potter's field|Potter's Field]]".<ref name=Keen>{{cite book |title=Addresses and Other Papers |author1=Keen, William Williams |year=1905 |publisher=W.B. Saunders & Co. |url=https://archive.org/stream/addressesotherpa00keenuoft/addressesotherpa00keenuoft_djvu.txt}}</ref> Later in the 19th century, this school issued an anatomy law that would be state-wide, which was issued around the statement of grave-robbing. This was due to an organized group of grave robbers in Philadelphia. Senator [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24621865 William James McKnight] was the person behind the upbringing of the state-wide anatomy law and was involved in grave-robbing himself after this act was finalized to the public.<ref name="MONTGOMERY 1966 374β393"/>
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