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People body snatched primarily to acquire corpses for medical research and education, particularly during the 18th and 19th centuries when legal access to cadavers was severely limited. The demand for anatomical studies surged as medical science advanced, but the supply of legally obtained bodies was insufficient. Body snatchers, often referred to as "resurrectionists," would exhumed freshly buried bodies to sell them to medical schools and researchers. This practice raised ethical concerns and eventually led to reforms in laws governing the use of cadavers.

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