The Apothecary

Mika Foguel

Quotation:

“You don’t desecrate the dead because if you desecrate the body it can’t be resurrected.”

Summary of Quote:

You couldn’t treat dead bodies with disrespect because then they believed they wouldn’t go to heaven.

Doctors weren’t allowed to use cadavers

Your ideas:

It was disrespectful for doctors to desecrate dead bodies. That was because Christians believed in heaven and hell and if doctors used your dead body for medical purposes it could change which way they were going. Which proves if they desecrated a body it was believed they wouldn’t go to heaven. Also dead bodies were sacred in the colonial ages. The gentry class was more important than the lower class in religion even in the afterlife they were put in a grave safely. Religion was very important in medicine because it limited their choices because if they couldn’t practice on dead bodies they were able to make more mistakes. If they had practised on dead bodies they could have cured illnesses faster and protect others from dying.