Like all major teaching hospitals,research was part of its mission. "Patient Care,Teaching And Research" was is official "motto". As a result,the autopsy room was chock full of vessels of all sizes containing various organs/body parts. On the floor were large vessels containing hearts,lungs,livers,etc. On the shelves were smaller containers holding eyes and other things.
One of the smaller containers caught my eye.It was a rather small pickle or mayonnaise jar containing five or six unborn babies. This was before Roe v Wade so I assume they were stillborn.
These babies were all about the size of my thumb and were all *perfectly* formed. They were clearly little tiny human beings. I remember noticing that one of them needed his/her fingernails clipped.
It's an image that will remain with me until the day I die.
They may not have been stillborn. Before Roe, many hospitals offered abortion, only it was coded and billed as a D&C. Just another way the abortion ethic had already corrupted medicine.