§ Colonel Lygonpresented a Petition from the Surgical and Medical Society of Westminster, praying for the removal of all difficulties in the way of obtaining Subjects for Dissection.
Mr. Warburtonsaid, that it was not his intention to renew his bill in the present Session, but that he had not relinquished the subject, and would probably bring in a bill respecting it in the next Session of Parliament.
§ Mr. Huntobserved, that if he should 346 continue to have the honour of a seat in the House when the hon. Gentleman introduced his bill, he would, if a clause were proposed to devote the bodies of poor persons to dissection, move, that every young surgeon, before he was allowed to touch a dissecting-knife, should sign an instrument, giving up his own body after death to the same operation. If it should be proposed to devote the bodies of poor paupers to dissection, he should move to add the bodies of those rich paupers, the pensioners on the Civil List.