Body snatching
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Body snatching is the illicit removal of corpses from graves, morgues, and other burial sites. Body snatching is distinct from the act of grave robbery as grave robbing does not explicitly involve the
Body snatchers at work. A painting on the wall of a public house in Penicuik, Scotland
Mortsafe in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
A cadaver in a dissecting room.
In rural parts of northern India, the lowest classes sometimes cannot obtain wood for cremation or ground for burial, and the exposure of bodies is the result.
William S. Forbes
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William Smith Forbes was an American physician who served as demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College. He is known as the "Father of the Anatomical Act" in Pennsylvania.
Portrait of William S. Forbes by Thomas Eakins
