This Week in History

April 16, 1788, The Doctors’ Riot occurred in New York killing about 20 people. There was general respect of physicians by most Americans. Though, in New York, an anger rose regarding a dark side of medical training. The acquiring of bodies for anatomical dissections at medical schools was unregulated. At this time, New York had only one medical school, Columbia College.

In the winter of 1788, new...