Outbreak of the doctors' riot
- When
- April 1788
- Where
- New York City
Poorer New Yorkers massed in discontent over the illegal procurement of corpses, directing their anger primarily at physicians and medical students.
The doctors' riot occurred in April 1788 in New York City, where the illegal procurement of corpses from the graves of the recently deceased caused a mass expression of discontent from poorer New Yorkers that was directed primarily at physicians and medical students. The anger followed the discovery of a dissected arm by children outside the New York Hospital and a winter of intensified exhumations.
Sources
- 1788 doctors' riot Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-28
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