Talk:Body-snatching

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Merged from Resurrectionist (section). SilkTork 20:29, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Refigeration

Before electric power to supply refrigeration, bodies would rapidly decay and become unusable for study.

There was plentiful refrigeration in the Victorian era, ice was brought in with the fishing fleet. The 'gas' refrigerator was invented somewhere around the middle of the century. It's the lack of cadavers, not the state of the corpses that caused the surgeons to turn to body snatchers. A body would typically be given to one of the students to work on, and while I don't have a contemporary account to hand, full dissection takes 2-3 weeks in a modern context. Kbthompson 13:47, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Zealand Section

None of the examples in the New Zealand section are examples of body snatching. They are only examples of people being buried in a different location than they had desired or that their executor had desired. The bodies were not used for dissection. I think the section should be removed entirely. 216.36.186.2 (talk) 17:36, 1 May 2008 (UTC)