Answer:
They would sacrifice anything for the pursuit of knowledge.
Step-by-step explanation:
At that time, medicine was a highly experimental science, because until then wasn't too much research about the functioning of the human body, so they need to do research and that was not too ethical because a death body was need it to do that.
So, they gain that fame, they would do anything to know more about human body. For example, until today, there is a conspiracy theory about Benjamin Frankiln, according to this, Franklin had tons of skeletons under his house, people said that he did a lot of experimenting.