The answer is no, though he was keeping a very dark and murky secret. Experts called in to examine the bones noted that the bones had clean cuts without signs of healing. That being said, it could be confirmed that the bodies were dismembered after death. The turtle found also contained mercury, which was a key piece of evidence. The turtle linked the bones to a close friend of Benjamin Franklin's: anatomist and father of hematology, William Hewson. One of William Hewson's most well known experiments had to do with injecting a dead turtle with mercury documenting its travel through the lymphatic system, thus leaving Hewson to be the first to realize that animals and humans shared a similar lymphatic system.
William Hewson was a brilliant mind who's progressive attempts to sophisticate surgery and the medical practice collided with modern law. At the time, due to religious fears, it was illegal to perform autopsies on anyone other than executed criminals, as it was believed a body not fully intact would have a hard time passing into its next chapter after death.
This caused an extreme dilemma for aspiring anatomists and early medical practitioners who needed a clearer understanding of the inner workings of the human body. Most anatomists and scientists of the age had to resort to the arguably unethical yet needed method of buying stolen bodies off body snatchers who robbed graves and in some cases murdered people in order to profit off their corpse. Desperate times in the field of science were causing disturbing desperate measures.
Benjamin Franklin was a supporter of scientific pursuits and had an interest in human anatomy. Because of this Benjamin Franklin allowed his good friend Hewson to run a secret and very illegal anatomy school through his own homes basement.
To say the least, Benjamin Franklin was a rebel of his era. He allowed stolen bodies to be bought and smuggled into his residence. He turned a blind eye to multiple crimes, yet created a space where medical knowledge could progress to eventually save lives. The anatomy school in his basement probably resembled a house of horrors, not the kind of secret one might fathom a founding father concealing. However this account amongst many others goes to show that history has many secrets.
It also supports the notion that anything remotely interesting about history is censored out of high school textbooks. We've all heard the statistics. This can lead to complications, problems with your children, financial issues, and no small amount of negative emotions.
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That doesn't mean that "work" can't be fulfilling and rewarding. But it's naive to think you can just coast once they've said "I do". The best marriages maintain mystery and romance, decades after saying their vows, and yours should too. Millions of Americans have found comfort in pet ownership. The media has been awash with stories about a surge in pet ownership, as Americans have taken advantage of the ability of pets to improve emotional well-being.
America is going through a mental health crisis. This crisis predates the global pandemic, but has in many ways been dramatically exacerbated by it. Ask Smithsonian For nearly two decades leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Franklin lived in London in a house at 36 Craven Street. In , Franklin left his English home to come back to America. More than years later, 15 bodies were found in the basement, buried in a secret, windowless room beneath the garden.
Six were children. There was a convenient wharf at one end of the street, where bodies could be smuggled in to and picked up from, and the basement of the building had a dirt floor. He just needed to bury them in the basement. Tabby, this all took place in London. More seriously and off-topic, the Jeffrey Epstein situation is major creepy.
Even the wackiest conspiracy theories massive ring of sexual predators, political big wigs involved sometimes have a grain of truth?
We have to look forward, not back. Political correctness is running amok here! Not much was known about the human body because dissections of cadavers were actually illegal. This may have been true in 3th C Rome. In 18 C Europe, total Bullshit. It might have helped if the author of that piece of crap knew a bit about medical history.
There may have been a shortage of bodies my father served as a graveyard guard before WWI to protect against grave robbers but there was nothing particularly illegal about human dissection in the 18th C. I just dislike total historical ignorance. I have trouble with the idea thay Franklin would be studying anatomy and there was not a mention or a sketch or a journal.
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