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For the leaders of the medical profession in the 19th century dissection was as much a rite of passage, a moral and sentimental education, as a tool of clinical instruction. Experience of the dead body was, they argued, central to the formation of medical and surgical character. A good doctor was detached and analytical, thoughtful and reflective, aware of (though never overwhelmed by) the enormous responsibilities and privileges of the profession. Conversely, even the most detailed anatomical knowledge was useless if its possessor panicked or fainted, if they were too nervous to hold a knife or too bloodthirsty to stop cutting. Dissection moulded the bodies of dissectors, making clear eyes and fine fingers, a sharp brain, a stout heart and—most of all— a strong stomach. Images of the human body in health and disease—or rather the use of these images while teaching and in practice—built a community of clinicians with shared skills, principles and values, who could observe their patients' bodies in the same consistent and coherent manner.

— The Sick Rose, by Richard Barnett

— Love & Other Drugs

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Louis Daguerre - The Effect of Fog and Snow Seen through a Ruined Gothic Colonnade | 1826.

Even more sacred than man's life must be his dignity to us

— Ernst Jünger