The Strange, Smelly Science of Decomposing Bodies. Can Microbes Solve Murder Mysteries? Pendu(e) haut et court, sans que mort s’en suive. National Geographic. Secrets of the body farm / Разложение тел. La ferme des corps. Mortsafe. Mortsafes were contraptions designed to protect graves from disturbance.
Resurrectionists had supplied the schools of anatomy in Scotland since the early 18th century. This was due to the necessity for medical students to learn anatomy by attending dissections of human subjects, which was frustrated by the very limited allowance of dead bodies - for example the corpses of executed criminals - granted by the government, which controlled the supply.[1] Official inaction[edit] The authorities turned a blind eye to the grave-rifling because surgeons and students were working to advance medical knowledge. The Mortsafe: Or How to Protect Your Loved Ones from the Bodysnatchers. Medical students in the United Kingdom of the nineteenth century faced a quandary.
They had been accustomed to using the corpses of executed criminals to study anatomy. The use of the corpses of the convicted to discover the secrets of human anatomy dates back to the 4th century BC, when Herophilos and Erasistratus of Alexandria were given permission to perform live vivisections. The times, however, had changed and criminals were now only dissected after execution.