ABSTRACT

This conclusion explores the persistent medical use of the human body in popular culture, which are more familiar to people, on corpse cures or beliefs which then look outrightly magical. The book finds those swallowing human materials after the Enlightenment are increasingly likely to sexualise such activity. It also examines a recurring and widespread fantasy: the belief that the powerful will kill people in order to use people body for medical ends. Given the anxiety which corpse medicine was producing in the eighteenth century, among those concerned for the image of the medical profession. As people have seen, one of the most enduring substances in the corpse medicine chest was human fat. This book have no definite evidence that physicians or their agents ever killed anyone solely for the purposes of corpse medicine. Finally, this conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book.