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corpse. body snatching, the illicit removal of corpses from graves or morgues during the 18th and 19th centuries. Cadavers thus obtained were typically sold to medical schools for use in the study of anatomy.
The term 'body snatching' most commonly refers to the removal and sale of corpses primarily for the purpose of dissection or anatomy lectures in medical schools. The term was coined primarily in regard to cases in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
When bodies became scarce, some people took to stealing bodies from graves, or worse, to sell to medical schools. In 19th century Edinburgh, two enterprising men did just that. Their names were...
The bodysnatcher or ‘Sack ‘em up men’ worked tirelessly up and down the length of Britain, raiding churchyards where any new burial had taken place. Cadavers were swiftly removed, stripped of their grave clothes and hastily bundled into waiting carts or hampers ready to be shipped to their final destination.
Oct 30, 2012 · Corpses sold for dissection by body snatchers helped improve understanding of how the human body worked, according to a new book that brings together archaeological evidence from their remains.
Yet the need for bodies created a profitable black market and ‘Resurrectionists’ or body snatchers became commonplace, leading to notorious cases of murder for the sole purpose of selling the...
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Jan 26, 2017 · Body snatchers were the lowest of low criminals. Practically every entry in The Diary of a Resurrectionist ends with, “all got drunk.” They were disreputable characters known to congregate in...
