Abstract
It is a matter of surprise that a body of men as intelligent and as worthy of respect as is the American Congress should, until this hour, make demands of the medical profession, the fulfilment of which involves the commission of crime. Over the signature of theHon. Wm. C. Endicott, Secretary of War, we have as one of the requirements, on the part of persons desirous of entering the Medical Corps of the U. S. Army, "<i>the performance of surgical operations upon the cadaver</i>." Over that of theHon. William C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy, one of the prerequisites to admission to the Naval Medical Corps is that of "<i>surgical operations upon the cadaver</i>." Supervising Surgeon-General Hamiltonof the U.S. Marine-Hospital Service in this connection says: "I would not consider any man qualified to practice medicine or surgery, who has not dissected the usual number of bodies required
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