A Companion to Manuals of Practical Anatomy

For almost 200 years the anatomy dissection room was a rite of passage for any young person studying medicine. The Edinburgh University Student Magazine in the 1920s said of him: "Watch him pass with step majestic / Down cadaver littered room / On his face one sees depicted / All this sad world's sorry gloom / Listen now, his voice majestic / Tells of nerve in hidden nook / Then unerring draws it forward / With his special little hook / Dear old Jimmy, kindest creature / Large of heart, of friends the best / Very many student troubles / Lurk within that massive breast."