A 16TH CENTURY AUTOPSY aka Post Mortem Examination or Necropsy. The dissection room here has the date 1562 on the wall, Dogs lie around on the floor as the surgeon cuts open the body in front of his students or audience. Historically there would have been a negative attitude regarding dissection of the human body but by the 1500s, the autopsy was generally accepted by the Catholic Church, marking the way for an accepted systematic approach for the study of human pathology,

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