Gayle:

Our gross anatomy professor made us do the dissections with bare hands and 
the cadavers were embalmed with a mixture of phenol and formaldehyde among 
other things.  Of course he would never get by with that today.  I smelled 
like the cadavers for the entire course and had practically dead (or 
unfeeling) hands.  Was really glad to get that course behind me.

Freida Carson