Dissecting Family Members

"Seventeenth-century English anatomist William Harvey, best known for discovering the circulation of the blood, dissected the bodies of his father, his sister, and his cousin's husband. Although these anatomical dissections were conducted privately, Harvey mentioned them in his lectures to students, noting the huge size of the colon he removed from his father's abdomen and the heavy weight of his sister's spleen."

-Christine Quigley, Dissection on Display, p. 1