 The president has been identified as John Freke, president of the Royal College of Surgeons at the time.Freke had been involved in the high-profile attempt to secure the body of condemned rioter Bosavern Penlez for dissection in 1749.Aside from the over-enthusiastic dissection of the body and the boiling of the bones "in situ", the image portrays the procedure as it would have been carried out.