Roosevelt Island's Smallpox Hospital—a crumbling Gothic fortress where the screams of the dying once echoed through quarantine wards, now stands as a skeletal monument to humanity's most merciless killer
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The Medical Use of Cadavers: History and Ethics
Humans have always been drawn to the idea of life after death or extending life. But what happens when the treatment defies medical necessity and borders on the strange and unusual?