James Wilson aka 'Daft Jamie', who was mentally retarded and one of the victims of murderers William Burke and William Hare in Edinburgh in 1828. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Scottish doctor Robert Knox (1791 - 1862) who purchased cadavers for dissection from murderers William Burke and William Hare in Edinburgh, circa 1830. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1850: Convicted bodysnatcher William Hare (1790 - 1860). William Hare was an accomplice of William Burke and Robert Knox who enticed people into Burke's house in Edinburgh and murdered them to sell their corpses to surgeons for medical research. William Burke was hanged for his crimes but Hare gave evidence and was released with Robert Knox. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1850: Notorious Scottish murderer William Burke (1792 - 1829), as he appeared in court. Burke enticed people into his house in Edinburgh and, with the help of his accomplices William Hare and Robert Knox, murdered the victims to sell their corpses to surgeons for medical research. William Burke was hanged for his crimes but Hare gave evidence and was released with Robert Knox. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Oil painting by an unknown artist of Dr William Hunter, after an original work by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), showing Dr Hunter holding an anatomy book open at a picture of a skeleton. William Hunter, MD, FRS, FSA (1718-1783), was an eminent Scottish anatomist and obstetrician, who trained his younger brother John at his school of anatomy in Covent Garden. John Hunter (1728-1793) later became a famed physiologist and surgeon in his own right, and William claimed several of his brother's discoveries. William Hunter became Physician Extraordinary to Queen Charlotte in 1764, the first Professor of Anatomy of the Royal Academy in 1768, and President of the Medical Society in 1781. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

'Resurrectionists', or grave robbers, stealing a corpse from a cemetery to be sold for anatomical study and dissection, circa 1840. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)