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Body Snatching: A Blood And Guts History Of Modern Medicine Stealing corpses to sell to physicians and medical schools at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution was so lucrative and so in demand that some "body snatchers" actually murdered people to satisfy the market. Click the link in our profile to learn why selling dead bodies was one of the most profitable businesses of the Victorian era.⁠ The dark practice of body snatching is directly tied to the advancements in the study of anatomy and medicine. The term was coined to describe the act of secretly removing corpses from graves for sale, primarily to medical schools where they were used for dissection and anatomy lessons. In fact, the first known case of body snatching was committed by four medical students in Bologna in 1319. Several years earlier the famed professor at Bologna, Mundinus, had revived the study and teaching of anatomy. He conducted public dissections of bodies, usually those of condemned criminals. In the