Da You Tube: Stealing and selling corpses for medical dissection, the Resurrection Men were feared across the UK during the 19th c. Writer Emlyn Harris tells you how they did it!

From user eghman : During the 17th century the only legal supply of flesh came from the gallows. The 1800s saw a liberal regime of capital punishment. An average of 55 people were being hanged each year, but the medical schools needed around 500 cadavers. In 1832, due to a public outcry, a change in the law made the practice illegal and offered a legitimate supply of corpses to the surgeons. The corpse of any person who had died whilst an inmate in a parish or municipal workhouse was offered for dissection.