Macfarlane tells him to make the payment as usual and enter the transaction in his book to keep his accounts straight. Fettes is horrified to see it is Gray's body lying on the table. After they bring the body upstairs, Macfarlane tells Fettes to look at its face.
He is surprised to find Macfarlane at the door. Fettes goes around town looking for him and Gray but do not find them.Įarly the following morning, Fettes is awakened by a delivery. The next day, Macfarlane does not come to class. He tells Fettes that Macfarlane hates him then makes the furious Macfarlane buy drinks and pay for a feast. He takes a liking to Fettes, however, and tells him all about his shady past. Gray treats Macfarlane rudely and orders him about, making it obvious that he has control over the young doctor. He joins them and finds the man, Gray, vulgar and offensive.
One afternoon, Fettes sees Macfarlane sitting with a stranger at the tavern. Macfarlane says that, since mostly all of their subjects have been murdered, they had better keep quiet to avoid bringing trouble to Mr. He agrees there has been foul play but tells Fettes to let the matter go. Macfarlane examines the corpse of the young woman. Macfarlane and Fettes work closely together, and it is they who, when supplies run low, go out to graveyards in Macfarlane's gig and bring back what they need. The assistant is a young doctor named Wolfe Macfarlane who is an unscrupulous but agreeable man. Horrified and unsure what to do, he consults his immediate superior, the class assistant. From the marks on her body, it is clear she met a violent death. It is a young woman he saw just the day before. One morning, Fettes recognizes the body being delivered. He has been instructed to ask no questions because anatomical supplies are limited – and it is best not to know where the bodies come from. He lives in the same building as the dissecting rooms so he can deal with the ruffians who bring the supplies before dawn. One of the duties of the sub-assistant is to receive and divide the subjects for dissection. According to Fettes, the following events took place when he was a promising young man studying medicine in Edinburgh.įettes works as a sub-assistant to the famous anatomy teacher Mr. Fettes is reluctant to discuss the incident, but the narrator eventually manages to get him to talk about it.
Everyone is shocked when Fettes confronts the doctor and angrily orders him out.
One night, a great London doctor named Wolfe Macfarlane is summoned to the George to treat an important local man who has taken ill. Although Fettes has lived in Debenham for many years, not much is known about him other than the fact that he is an educated man with some knowledge of medicine. The unnamed narrator sits every night in the parlor at the George in Debenham with the landlord, the undertaker, and an old drunken Scotsman named Fettes.
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