is the advertisement of Caesar Hawkins, from a newspaper of
1739:

"In Pall Mall Court, in Pall Mall. On Thursday, the 5th of February
next, will begin a Course of Anatomy, with the principal Operations
in Surgery and their suitable Bandages, by Caesar Hawkins, Surgeon to
St. George's Hospital."

Joshua Brookes' advertisement, in 1814, ran as follows:

"THEATRE OF ANATOMY, BLENHEIM STREET,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

"The Summer Course of Lectures on Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery,
will be commenced on Monday, the 6th of June, at seven o'clock in
the morning. By Mr. Brookes.--Anatomical Converzationes will be held
weekly, when the different Subjects treated of will be discussed
familiarly, and the Students' views forwarded. To these none but
Pupils can be admitted. Spacious Apartments, thoroughly ventilated,
and replete with every convenience, will be open at five o'clock in
the morning, for the purposes of Dissecting and Injecting, when Mr.
Brookes attends to direct the Students and demonstrate the various
parts as they appear on Dissection.

"The inconveniences usually attending Anatomical Investigations, are
counteracted by an antiseptic process. Pupils may be accommodated in
the House. Gentlemen established in Practice, desirous of renewing
their Anatomical Knowledge, may be accommodated with an apartment to
dissect in privately."

A very interesting account of the old Anatomical Schools, by Mr. D'Arcy
Power, will be found in the _British Medical Journal_, 1895, vol. 2, p.
141. The paper is entitled "The Rise and Fall of the Private Medical
Schools in London." It has been reprinted, with other articles, in a
pamphlet, entitled _The Medical Institutions of London_.

In Great Britain, as no licence was required for opening an Anatomical
School, there was no limit to their number; there was also no regular
legal supply of subjects, except the bodies of murderers, executed in
London and the county of Middlesex, which came to the schools through the
College of Surgeons. In Paris a licence had to be obtained before opening
an Anatomical School, and bodies were regularly supplied to the licensed
places.

With the rise and competition of the Medical Schools in London, the
difficulty of getting an adequate number of bodies increased. The absolute
necessity of having a good supply for the use of students, so as t