During the 19th century, the sensational serial murders associated with Burke and Hare and the London Burkers led to legislation which provided scientists and medical schools with legal ways of obtaining cadavers.
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They killed 16 people over the course of a year, selling the cadavers to the anatomist Robert Knox.
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