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The remains were there as the result of an anatomy school run by Franklin's protege, William Hewson.No, that's the not the case, but when one hears that human remains from about a dozen bodies werein an underground room at Franklin's 18th-century London home, it's perhaps natural to go to a dark place.
Although it's true that human remains were found at Franklin's old home in London, where he lived before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which brought the United States into existence, that fact isn't the murder mystery it may sound like. It's instead the result an anatomy school run by Franklin's protege William Hewson, according toThe discovery of the remains was made in 1998, when conservationists were doing repairs on the home at 36 Craven St.
Nevertheless, running an anatomy school in the 18th century still would have entailed some shadiness, according to Smithsonian. The discipline was still in its infancy, and acquiring bodies for study wasn't on the up-and-up. It probably involved"dark, ethically ambiguous" practices. The Ben Franklin House museum observed that it still wasn't fully legal to procure bodies for anatomical study and dissection until 1832 in England, over four decades after Franklin's death:
"It's likely that some of Hewson's cadavers came from the so-called 'resurrectionists' – bodysnatchers who shipped their wares along the Thames under cover of night."
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