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Tulane's diffidence toward the offer of Jack's corpse was not without significance, for the whole subject of cadavers used by students of anatomy is one which medical school authorities understandably dislike airing in public. Yet since the 1880s the business has been aboveboard and regulated by statutes. Before then all U. S. medical schools relied mainly on body snatchers for their corpses. Bodies sold for dissection usually came from undertaking parlors and graveyards. As late as 1893 when Johns Hopkins Medical School was opened, the 1,200 students in Baltimore's medical schools...
...thousands of U. S. doctors practice patient-splitting. A group which is friendly or has been to the same school will pass their cases around to each other when they need various specialist attentions. Dr. Hays last week recommended another solution, suggested that the practice of dichotomy be established aboveboard. It was his idea that specialists pay 15% of the patient's fee to the diagnostician or general practitioner for recommending him. The general practitioner, under this system, is not to charge the patient any other...
...semi-secrecy of the tent would have permitted. In any event, Plunkett's assertion that "evidently we were not meant to see this part of the performance, or it would all have been done in the open" is incredibly naïve. If the demonstration were genuine and aboveboard, why should there be any part of it not meant to be seen? Magicians are well-acquainted with the psychological effect of inducing spectators to believe they are seeing what is not meant to be seen, while in reality just enough is being concealed to hide the secret...
...Colonel'' Edward Mandell House, self-constituted peace apostle, went to Europe in the spring of 1914 with Wilson's unofficial blessing, he soon suspected that .Europe was in a dangerous state but it took him a long time to realize that European diplomacy was not exactly aboveboard. After the War began Col. House made annual trips abroad to see what the U. S. could do about composing the quarrel. His confidential scurryings about the embattled chancelleries of Europe accomplished nothing, gave off "a strong suggestion of innocence in a den of suspicious gangsters." High point...
...this fact and now plan to recognize it. This being the case, a thorough job should be done now, and a sound course chartered for future action. The undergraduate agencies, which heretofore have proved a failure in general should be eliminated. Solicitation should be placed on a fair and aboveboard basis through selection based on merit and financial need. And finally, official solicitors should be identified with unmistakable insignia, and the soliciting nuisance kept in hand as much as possible through a reasonable limitation on time for laundry and pressing sales...