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1826 April 24
J.B. to Sec. Peel on Subjects for DissectionLetter II

Sir

Bodies for Dissection

Pardon the liberty I take in addressing you a second
letter in consequence of the honor done to the first. The point
of view on which this will present the subject is a new one with an additional one on it. My respect for your time
has dictated the for
my observation the
smallest form
possible.

Secy P. I thereby flatter myself be regarded as others the once This not a subject for legislation
Secy P B. But it has been taken for a subject of legislation: and
by thereby the if not produced has been encreased.
By Stat. G. Murders are ordained to be anatomized.
What is the consequence? That as done by a
relative? that when the body of his deceased relative is this treated
he is treated as murderer. The arrangement is such
as might better have been expected from the legislators grandeur
than that from the Legislator himself. The person sort of person
in whom of all others the idea of the treatment would be likely to make the improper is the sort of person for whom to which produced allotted in whose instance it is allowed.

Proposed Title of for the Bill p proposed Bill. A Bill for the
more effectual prevention of the violation of Burial places
by the and of the feelings of the relatives of persons deceased add if needful by the stealing of dead bodies.
What the Official remedy aims at is – keeping up the illegal practice
by secret management. What the new proposed remedy aimed at
or pretty well assured of is –
the entire prevention of
it. What is assured
is – that the number
of dead bodies thus
supplied would be
so considerable, that
the demand for the
anti-legal and
anti-sentimental
mode of procurement
would cease altogether,
or at the worst be
very much reduced.
True – this is not the
use that first presented
itself to view. But be neither by
their accidental circumstance
is the importance
of it lessened.

Secy P: Measures taken as to this Metropolis.

B. has three Metropolises. In be Edinburgh
, that on this account it has ceased to be what
it had been a Student School for not only for other the England
two kingdoms and Ireland but for foreign Countries. This is
not itself the great principal use: but it serves as an index
of the magnitude of the principal evil. ☞ Reference to Morn. Chron.
The few dead bodies the Edinburgh are
able to get are brought I am told from England
are consequently in a very deteriorated state
and paid for at an excessive price.

Your reluctance to bring forward, is in the
first instance to heed your countenance to a measure having
this for its object I neither wonder at, nor do I take upon
me to express any disapprobation of it. But I make little
doubt of exonerating his Majesty's Secretary of his you altogether by engaging some other
M.P. to take it upon himself. You may then without
committing yourself in the smallest degree make observation of the
impression made in of the House and act accordingly.

Identifier: | JB/011/193/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1826-04-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	193	Info in main headings field	jb to secy peel on subjects for dissection
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	3890
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