Several major hospitals and teaching centres were established in Britain during the 18th century, but with only a very few corpses legally available for dissection, these institutions suffered from severe shortages.
18世紀には、イギリス中に複数の大病院と教育施設が設立されたが、合法的に解剖できる遺体の数は非常に少なく、これらの団体は深刻な遺体不足に悩まされることになった。