Harriet Cole was a janitor at the Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia when she met Rufus B. Weaver. This African-American man, who died in his thirties of phthisis (tuberculosis) in the late 1880s, decided to donate his body to science when he became aware of the challenges of medical research. This black woman of humble origins, one of the humblest of her time, did she imagine that she would become world famous, travel the country and continue to generate excitement and curiosity a hundred and thirty years later; he, or rather his system, is nervous. ?
The remains of the young woman did allow Rufus Weaver, a distinguished professor of anatomy, to pursue a project that his colleagues at the time considered disproportionate, impossible, crazy. It involved the complete dissection of the nervous system of the human body to reveal its complex structure for educational purposes. Before the advent of modern medical imaging…
Source: Le Figaro
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