After the advancement of tools became a major step in the Victorian era, the method of dissecting bodies for criminal work began to be explored. Sherlock was known for working with dead bodies and working with cadavers, yet he was not the first to adopt this method of crime work. Before Sherlock's method became known, Giovanni Battista Morgagni changed the way the idea of dissecting bodies for criminal work purposes would be looked at (Wagner, 4). Before Morgagni's idea came to be, the thought of anatomy and working with cadavers had a bad reputation even though the work was fascinating (Wagner, 5). Yet, working with cadavers and the method of dissecting a cadaver for criminal work would soon become a popular method. Several other scientists
