To try and contain the escalating situation, the 1832 Anatomy Act was passed in the United Kingdom, making body snatching a criminal offence. However, body snatching continued to occur throughout ...

In 1832, the Anatomy Act allowed the dissection of bodies for educational use. Rather than relying on grave robbing, as artists and doctors often did before then, the bodies of unclaimed prisoners ...

To try and contain the escalating situation, the 1832 Anatomy Act was passed in the United Kingdom, making body snatching a criminal offence. However, body snatching continued to occur throughout ...

In an attempt to end this situation, the UK passed the Anatomy Act of 1832. This meant that anatomists, rather than having to rely on grave robbers, had legal access to the unclaimed corpses of ...

The Anatomy Act of 1832 allowed workhouses and hospitals to donate the bodies of the poor if unclaimed by family, in an attempt to abate the resurrectionists. Infectious diseases such as cholera ...

Lawmakers created the Anatomy Act in 1832, which permitted hospitals and workhouses to hand over any unclaimed remains, many of which belonged to small children. Two years later, research ...

Image caption, The Anatomy Act 1832 gave surgeons and students of anatomy the freedom to dissect donated bodies. Before this, only the bodies of executed murderers could be used. Image caption ...

The scandal led to the 1832 Anatomy Act, which regulated the discipline and the supply of bodies. Dissection stopped being part of the death penalty, and public lectures soon ceased ...

Image caption, The Anatomy Act 1832 gave surgeons and students of anatomy the freedom to dissect donated bodies. Before this, only the bodies of executed murderers could be used. Image caption ...

The Anatomy Act 1832 gave surgeons and students of anatomy the freedom to dissect donated bodies. Before this, only the bodies of executed murderers could be used.