History on Body Snachers and Cdaversa

According to diesmart Medical schools have been using cadavers for more than 200 years. Anatomy schools began to steal bodies from graves, but stealing a dead body was not a crime. Some anatomy instructors encouraged this “body snatching”. Students sometimes paid tuition in corpses or dug up bodies as late night pranks. Anatomists would even dissect members of their own family. William Harvey, the man famous for discovering the circulatory system, was so dedicated that he dissected members of his own family. By 1828 anatomists were paying others to do the digging. At that time, London anatomy schools employ ten full time body snatchers and about two hundred part time workers during the dissection season. A crew of six or seven could dig up about 312 bodies. There is an ongoing demand for cadavers for medical research and training. The cadavers used by medical institutions come from people like you and me who decide to donate their whole body for medical research when they die.