Philip has just met his partner in the anatomy lab.
"He looked at the boy who had accompanied him into the dissecting-room and saw that he was white.

"Make you feel rotten?" Philip asked him.

"I've never seen anyone dead before."

It often happened in the old days that a few members of each class would take one look at the dead bodies, and
be unable to tolerate the sight, and immediately drop out
of medical school. Now Compartive Anatomy is a pre-requisite, and the transition from dead animals to a dead human is relatively easy to make.