Excerpt from Report From the Select Committee on AnatomyThe Committee consider that they would imperfectly discharge their duties, if they did not state their conviction of the importance to the public interests of the subject of their inquiries. As the members of the profession are well educated, so is their ability increased to remove or alleviate human suffering. As the science of Anatomy has improved, many operations formerly thought necessary have been altogether dispensed with, most of those retained have been rendered more simple, and many new ones have been performed, to the saving of the lives of patients, which were formerly thought impossible. To neglect the practice of dissection, would lead to the greatest aggravation of human misery, since Anatomy, if not learned by that practice, must be learned by mangling the living. Though all classes are deeply interested in affording protection to the study of Anatomy, yet the poor and middle classes are the most so, they will be the most: benefited by promoting it, and the principal sufferers by discouraging it. The rich, when they require professional assistance, can afford to employ those who have acquired the reputation of practising successfully. It is on the poor that: the inexperienced commence their practice, and it is to' the poor that the practice of the lower order of practitioners is confined. It is, therefore, for the interest of the poor especially, that professional education should be rendered cheap and of easy attainment, that the lowest order of practitioners (which is the most numerous), and the students on their firsr entry into practice, may be found well instructed in the duties of their profession.Such, on an attentive consideration of the Evidence adduced, is the deliberate judgment of the Committee on the matters submitted to them, and it now remains for The House to consider whether it will not be expedient to introduce, in the course of the ensuing Session, some legislative measure, which may give effect to the recommendations contained in the present Report.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.