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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Anatomie Vivante; or, Skeleton Importation Company
These are the days of speculation: one of the most profitable, has been that of the Skeleton Importation Company. It appears that some of our half-pay captains, whose former duty it was, to “eat Frenchmen alive,” have lately changed their occupation, (in conformity with these piping times of peace,) to that of picking the bones of a French skeleton; and good picking they have! Between three and four hundred of the hydra-headed but little-witted multitude of John Bulls – or rather John Gulls, have run daily to Pall Mall to get their half-crown share or sight of the living skeleton! In short, no Frenchman ever before excited such curiosity on these shores – except Napoleon himself. The living skeleton may therefore, in this respect, be considered as a second Bony-parte.
– Medico–Chirurgical Review (1825), 3 (n.s.): 600THE EXODUS
By the 1820s the British medical world was becoming aware of an exodus of many of its brightest students to France. A migration of this magnitude was repeated and surpassed only a half-century later when a larger number of American, Japanese, and other student groups began trekking to Germany to observe the new laboratory medicine.
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