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Lectures to ladies on anatomy and physiology
Boston, 1842. Wood engraving. National Library of Medicine
Mary S. Gove
(1810-1884)
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Gove argued that women needed to learn human anatomy as a crucial aid to moral and intellectual improvement, a controversial point in 1842. The praying skeleton — also used in William A. Alcott’s landmark popular anatomy, The House I Live In (1832) — is copied from William Cheselden’s 1713 Anatomy of the Humane Body.
