Accounts vary for how the riot begins. In some tellings, a group of children found an amputated arm outside the hospital. Others say they saw an amputated arm hanging out a window, and others say the children climbed a ladder and witnessed a dissection through a window. Whatever the facts, the neighborhood riots against the hospital over concern about its use of deceased bodies. This leads to the first act to criminalize the digging up of cadavers for the purpose of dissection, instead recommending using the bodies of executed incarcerated people for this purpose. Similar riots will occur in multiple states and cities throughout the following century, with each leading to changes in local laws related to dissection.