Some photos were essentially class pictures, which conveyed the pride associated with becoming a member of the medical profession. In such large group images students are often arrayed on school steps or in the anatomical amphitheatre, and have as a companion a skeleton or cadaver. In such settings students usually have on their best attire.


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Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in
American Medicine 1880-1930
By John Harley Warner and James M. Edmonson.
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