Year 300 B.C.: Was the first autopsy performed on a living person?
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Today we’ll talk about autopsies - an indispensable tool for studying the body. Autopsies for scientific purposes, as the title of this story suggests, began to be performed sometime around 300 BC. However, it is said that the first autopsies were performed on living people. Is that really true? Could this be true? Dissect a living person?
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