The movie Secrets of the dead: Ben Franklin’s Bones was a movie about hundreds of bones found in a house that Benjamin Franklin resided in London. The movie presented William Hewson as a 18th century surgeon and anatomist. In the 18th century new wave of scientists emerged after the “barbers” stopped performing minor surgeries. Those scientists were physiologists and anatomist. The young scientist, Hewson, had to go thought incredible lengths to obtain bodies in order to continue his studies. Scientists interested in studying the body had to go on the underground market to obtain human bodies because only universities were allowed to perform dissections. The discovery hungry scientists risked being blackmailed by the same people that would
