All Jewish medical students in the University of Warsaw lost one semster’s credits when they were not permitted to take their examinations in anatomy on the ground that they had not completed the dissection course demanded, it was learned today. Jewish students are not permitted to dissect bodies of Christians. The Jewish community was supposed to furnish corpses, but did not since dissection is contrary to Jewish law.
Recently, Jewish medical students vainly besieged the office of the Warsaw Jewish community demanding that the community furnish the bodies of indigent Jewish dead for dissection.
Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch was physician to Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and after his execution took charge of the body on the voyage to Austria.
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