“…In this context, the lack of cadavers for anatomical studies was a reality, as in other countries (e.g., introduction of the 1832 British Anatomy Act legally allowed access to cadavers for anatomical teaching [Mitchell, 2012]). The publication of the Ordinance Number 40, on August 22, 1913, tried to fill that void in the Portuguese law (Pontinha and Soeiro, 2014), stating that "… the bodies of the deceased in hospitals, nursing homes, and care homes are available to the faculties of medicine to their studies, if, within twelve hours after the death, were unclaimed by their families to proceed to its burial" (Ministério da Justic¸ a, 1999). This was probably the case for this widow (85), who lived around 40 km from Coimbra, and, at the hospital admission, was classified as a 3rd class pensioner, meaning that she did not have to pay for her stay in the CUH (Santos, 1999).…”