英语词汇doctor-s mob的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Doctor’s Mob. “In a spirit of medical humor,” one chronicler of the period wrote, a medical student, John D. Hicks, picked up the arm of a corpse he had just dissected and waved it at several young boys peering in through the window. “This is your mother’s arm!” he shouted. “I just dug it up. Get out of here or I’ll smack you with it.” The children scattered into the dark, but one frightened boy took Hicks at his word. By a strange coincidence his mother had died recently. The boy re- peated Hicks’s threat to his father, who gathered some friends and hurried to the local cemetery. There, by another strange coincidence, he found his wife’s grave empty. Whoever had robbed it hadn’t even bothered to fill in the hole, the coffin ex- posed and broken apart. The enraged man vowed to make someone pay for this desecration, leading his friends through the streets of lower Manhatttan. Others joined them, and a mob of hundreds soon stormed toward the New York Hospital and its unsuspecting staff. The mob had heard too many stories about young interns stealing bodies from private cemeteries, and now they had “proof.” The Doctor’s Mob of April 13–15, 1788, one of America’s first riots, had begun. Before it was put down at least eight people were killed and scores more were injured.

词汇	doctor-s mob
词源	Doctor’s Mob. “In a spirit of medical humor,” one chronicler of the period wrote, a medical student, John D. Hicks, picked up the arm of a corpse he had just dissected and waved it at several young boys peering in through the window. “This is your mother’s arm!” he shouted. “I just dug it up. Get out of here or I’ll smack you with it.” The children scattered into the dark, but one frightened boy took Hicks at his word. By a strange coincidence his mother had died recently. The boy re- peated Hicks’s threat to his father, who gathered some friends and hurried to the local cemetery. There, by another strange coincidence, he found his wife’s grave empty. Whoever had robbed it hadn’t even bothered to fill in the hole, the coffin ex- posed and broken apart. The enraged man vowed to make someone pay for this desecration, leading his friends through the streets of lower Manhatttan. Others joined them, and a mob of hundreds soon stormed toward the New York Hospital and its unsuspecting staff. The mob had heard too many stories about young interns stealing bodies from private cemeteries, and now they had “proof.” The Doctor’s Mob of April 13–15, 1788, one of America’s first riots, had begun. Before it was put down at least eight people were killed and scores more were injured.
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