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Janis Ann Parks

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in The United States

February 08

Website

Http://www.gravelymistaken.com

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Genre

Historical Fiction

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February 2012

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When I worked as an RN at the Medical College of Georgia, I heard about a slave named Grandison Harris. He was purchased in 1852 and his main duty was to procure fresh cadavers from a local cemetery to allow medical students to study anatomy. I thought that might make a good story, especially when I heard how the students played a prank on him one night.
I tucked it all away until I retired and then when I started doing research, I also found articles about how medicine was practiced in the 1800's.
It's amazing we survived! ...more