Body Snatchers | ORIGINAL |

: The story follows a medical student named Fettes who is tasked with receiving bodies for his professor. He eventually recognizes one of the "donations" as a man named Gray, whom he had seen alive and well just hours before.

: Legislation at the time restricted the legal supply of cadavers to executed criminals, which was insufficient for the growing number of medical students. Body Snatchers

: The practice largely ended with the Anatomy Act of 1832 , which legalized the use of unclaimed bodies from hospitals and workhouses for medical research, effectively destroying the black market. : The story follows a medical student named

In the 18th and 19th centuries, "body snatchers" (also known as resurrectionists) were individuals who exhumed recently buried corpses to sell them to medical schools for anatomical dissection. : The practice largely ended with the Anatomy