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The Murder Act of 1752 decreed the bodies of executed murderers free game for medical dissection, lifting the strict quotas of cadavers allocated for research, but there still aren't enough to go around. Only the Royal College of Physicians and the Company of Barber-Surgeons are allowed to have the official corpses, wheeled to them fresh from the gallows, and a lot of murderers find new purpose on the tables of the official institutions.