Apr 22, 2023
The Chilling Practice of Body Snatching
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the demand for fresh cadavers in the field of anatomy led to a macabre practice: body snatching. Grave robbers, known as "resurrectionists," would exhume freshly buried corpses under the cover of darkness, selling them to medical schools for dissection. This ghastly trade in human remains continued until the Anatomy Act of 1832, which finally put an end to the grisly practice. Today, the stories of body snatchers serve as a chilling reminder of the lengths to which people will go in the name of science and progress.