The mansion in which a former minister was publicly dissected wants to be a national museum | Science

It was possibly the most amazing anatomy class ever. On November 11, 1908, Professor Alejandro San Martín—a famous surgeon who had just been Minister of Public Instruction—went to give his last lecture at the Faculty of Medicine in Madrid. The unusual thing about that Wednesday morning is that San Martín, 61, had been dead the … Read more