Episode 2 of 4
Children discover a dissected arm outside the New York Hospital
- When
- April 1788
- Where
- New York Hospital
In April 1788, children playing outside the New York Hospital saw a student of Richard Bayley dissecting an arm in an adjacent room.
In April 1788, a group of children were playing outside the New York Hospital, next to a room where a student of the physician Richard Bayley was dissecting an arm. Bayley was known to exhume corpses from the two cemeteries. The incident supplied visible evidence of the grave-robbing that had fed the winter's increased exhumations.
Sources
- 1788 doctors' riot Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28
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