Body-snatchers. Historical artwork of body- snatchers, or resurrectionists, stealing a corpse from a grave. Body-snatchers sold the corpses to medical schools and private anatomical schools for medical research and education. It was a lucrative business in England due to the small supply of legal cadavers. The passing of the Anatomy Act of 1832 put an end to the trade by repealing an Act that only allowed the corpses of executed murderers to be used for dissection. This illustration insResurrectionists at Workins by Hablot Knight Browne, also known as Phiz, was first published in 1840.