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1. How was information about Spencer collected?

The information was collected through the tireless efforts and generous financial support of Philadelphia’s Museum of Medical Antiquities. For fifteen years, their curators toured private collections throughout the United States and Europe in search of Spencer’s lost journals, letters, and illustrations.

2. When and where were Spencer and his brother born?

Spencer and his older brother, Bernard, were born in Boston Massachusetts. Spencer was born in 1851, and his brother was born in 1848.

3. Who were Spencer’s parents?

Spencer’s mother, Meredith, died while delivering him. His father was a respected professor of anatomy at the Medical Arts College of Boston.

4. How did Dr. Gregory Black obtain bodies for his medical students?

Spencer had more students than the amount of bodies he could obtain legally. He purchased stolen cadavers, and he dug up many bodies himself, with the assistance of his young sons.

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