Resurrectionists were body snatchers who were commonly employed by anatomists in the United Kingdom during the 18th and 19th centuries to exhume the bodies of the recently dead. Between 1506 and 1752 only a very few cadavers were available each year for anatomical research.

Resurrectionist, one who practises body snatching. Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom; Resurrectionist Order of the Roman Catholic Church

In November 1825 a sentry captured Thomas Tuite, a known resurrectionist, in possession of five bodies. When searched, his pockets were found to be full of teeth–in those days a set of teeth fetched £1 (about £50 in 2011).

Have you heard of the Resurrection Men, the criminal body snatchers who would rip fresh corpses from their graves and sell them to hospitals for dissection? Body snatching was a distasteful trade that flourished at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries in Britain.

The meaning of RESURRECTIONIST is body snatcher.

2025年1月16日 · In 18th and 19th century Britain, the demand for anatomical knowledge collided with strict laws about who could be dissected after death, giving rise to a disturbing chapter in medical history: the era of grave robbers and body snatchers Known as "resurrectionists” or resurrection men.

2015年4月30日 · The Diary of a Resurrectionist, a book published by James Bailey in 1896 that contains portions of a diary actually kept by a member of a resurrectionist gang in London, is owned by the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library. Though Bailey left out any gory details, it still proves to be an interesting read.

2025年3月9日 · The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap is a gothic historical novel set in 19th-century Edinburgh, a city teeming with ambition, squalor, and a desperate hunger for medical knowledge. The story follows James Willoughby, a former Oxford student drawn into the grim underworld of body snatching to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor.

2007年1月8日 · The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812, to which are added an account of the resurrection men in London & a short history of the passing of the anatomy act by Bailey, James Blake

2014年10月16日 · Stealing a dead body was merely a misdemeanor, but people feared such a fate for their loved one’s remains -and there were religious objections. Therefore, body snatching was not safe, and almost...