Note 1407 — Chapter XVII
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The church had a repugnance to permit the dissection of dead bodies, but Fallopius tells us that the Duke of Tuscany was sometimes obliging enough to send a living criminal to the anatomists, quem interficimus nostro modo et anatomisamus. Sprengel suggests that nostro modo meant by opium; but this seems to be merely a conjecture. Hist. de la Médecine, iv. 11.