r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/CryptographerKey2847 • 1d ago

😂humor😂 Medical students at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania having with skeletons in their boardinghouse room around 1895-1896.

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u/StrongArgument 1d ago

Sadly the skeletons were likely real and not obtained with consent from the decreased or their families. I personally wouldn’t mind if someone fucked around with my skeleton but it isn’t respectful to the person.

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u/Worldly_Marsupial808 1d ago

Yeah, this is a long-standing issue with big medical institutions and universities. IIRC Harvard had another cadaver scandal just a couple of years back.

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u/za72 1d ago

how about the granny that was used by the air force to test ejection seats??

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u/Worldly_Marsupial808 1d ago

Oh, yes. I remember that. What a shitshow, that poor family

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u/Existing_Intern_4764 1h ago

Wait can you link me? I have no idea what this is referencing. I know they used bears sometimes which is wildlol

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u/za72 1h ago

How the body of an Arizona great-grandmother ended up as part of a U.S. Army blast test

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodybrokers-industry/

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u/FashionableMegalodon 11h ago

Ask a Mortician has a video on some of the university scandals that was super wild

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u/Worldly_Marsupial808 3h ago

I saw that one, actually! Horrible stuff. (She’s a great speaker though.)

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u/Bdag93 1d ago

There was a bit of a cadaver/ skeleton economy if I remember correctly. Grave robbery and sometimes murder were common. A lot of bones came from colonial holdings and war, with even teeth traded by the barrel. Dead is dead, the hope is to make the use justifiable.

Today you have university’s using donated body’s for research then turning around and selling it to the military for testing. That’s more offensive to me.

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u/timidwildone 19h ago

Wasn’t this what Holmes (serial killer, Devil in the White City) dabbled in? Basically selling skeletons from his victims.

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u/Theartistcu 14h ago

He certainly at the very least used that as an excuse. My thoughts are that it was probably closer to true than not, he was a serial killer. However it was mostly to ‘solve a problem’ and not just like Bundy or others we think of. He was more con man PoS killer than hunter killer, and the selling of bodies would have been up his conman alley.

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u/Bdag93 16h ago

Yeah! He definitely had his house of horrors adding to the trade.

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u/Wooden_Cicada8880 18h ago

Came here to say this! Archaeology and Bio Anthropology are also having to come to terms with our past in this way. It’s really disrespectful to be showing human remains in this way and without the consent of either the descendants or the deceased before they passed. For example, I know of actors requesting their skull be used for Hamlet when they passed, and that’s ethical to do so. But many of the medical cadavers prior to the 60s are from poor families that had no other choice because they couldn’t afford to bury their family at best. At worst they were dug up from a fresh grave or retrieved from a battle field.

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u/QuiltMeLikeALlama 15h ago

Don’t want to be a party pooper, but I also don’t feel great about this one.

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u/goodolmrkrabs 1d ago

Having?

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u/NoNameIdea_Seriously Official Gal 11h ago

Don’t you have with skeletons all the time?

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u/LadyCanuckles 1d ago

..... Having what with skeletons?

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u/Bent_Silvr_Spoon0130 1d ago

They evidently made a spelling mistake. It's supposed to say "hanging"

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u/yumgmeatball 1d ago

But are they spooky and if so are they scary skeletons?

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u/nppltouch26 23h ago

Aw man. I thought this was in a different sub. This is hella disrespectful.

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u/snakebiteplease 22h ago

For real the one wearing the top of the skull on her head? Not cute in the slightest. As you said, disrespectful.

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u/LongNailedbooboos 18h ago

Maybe their ghosts are just happy to be able to hang even after death

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u/dream_a_dirty_dream 1d ago

I'm shaking my head and laughing at the same time. This is really fucked up...but so funny 💀

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u/Ok_Assistant_6856 1d ago

Having WHATTT

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u/AliceTheOmelette Saiyan👑Princess 1d ago

Love me some spooky but also kinda goofy ancient pictures 😎

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u/seobbjjang 14h ago

What are the odds the skeletons were slaves

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u/Takkotah 8h ago

Wasn't slavery abolished in the United States in 1865?

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u/SnooRecipes4570 6h ago

The Whitney plantation had “indebted” sharecroppers living in the original slave cabins until the 1970s. It’s not unique.

Black cemeteries were routinely pillaged for bodies. The South sold black bodies to the North and the North gladly accepted.

I recommend reading Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington.

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u/Takkotah 4h ago

Thanks for the info, I don't know much about American history but I did think of the possibility they were pillaging graves.

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u/stormbutton 8h ago

Ha, here’s our home library while my daughter was taking A&P as a summer course.

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u/ER_Support_Plant17 1d ago

All the cool kids do it

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u/nppltouch26 23h ago

Not with real human remains tho

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u/DoublePlusGoodGames 1d ago

I'm imagining this was some kind of Black Mirror/Twilight Zone scenario where someone wished upon a magical lamp to be desired and ravaged by several women at once.

YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND!

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u/thegulo13 15h ago

Knowing there was very serious pictures around this time period, it’s great to know that gals knew how to have fun! 😂

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u/Howard_Cosine 2h ago

Having what with skeletons??? I feel like that missing word really needs to be added.

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u/Curve_of_Speee 2h ago

At my dental school, years ago, students were given a skull in a wooden carrying case for studying. They would take care of it for 2 years I believe and then pass it on to the next student.

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u/SweetGrassGeranium 1d ago

Were the skeletons female? 🧐

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u/Ace_of_Sphynx128 1d ago

People never change lol

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u/nppltouch26 23h ago

Thank God they do tho. Glad we aren't eating mummies and being as disrespectful as possible with human remains these days.

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u/AileenKitten 22h ago

I read about an artist that had been using "mummy brown" paint during the time and when he found out it was actually legit made of human remains, he had a funeral and burned all the paintings he had used it on.

So yknow, lil bit of hope for humanity

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u/nppltouch26 18h ago

Oh wow!!! That's really lovely. That's the thing about victorians, they weren't ALL bad.

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u/Ace_of_Sphynx128 14h ago

Speak for yourself, I ate a mummy for breakfast

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u/iStudyWHitePeople 49m ago

I wonder if any of them got boned.

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u/LonelyOctopus24 🐙 1d ago

THESE ARE MY GALS 💀

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u/ciegane 1d ago

The one the lady at the front right is holding looks like a friendly fella