Around the 19th century the government played a negative role in science, allowing "body snatching" as a common practice in medical schools.
The demand for cadavers for human dissection grew, leading to an epidemic of of grave thefts; and those in charge of body snatching were named "<em>resurrectionists</em>" or "<em>Resurrection-Men</em>"; stealing corps from local cemeteries to the anatomy schools for dissection lectures.
