The ''Anatomy Act'' of Quebec allows legal procuration of unclaimed bodies from government institutions for use by medical schools in

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. The law was passed in 1843, then amended in 1883. Prior to its establishment, illegal cadaver trade by body-snatchers was common, including students paying their fees with bodies exhumed from cemeteries.

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