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Corpse Medicine
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Would you eat human brains to cure yourself of a tummy ache? I didn't think so. But there was a time, centuries ago, when this was the script for what ailed you! Venture back into the dark ages with me to a time when corpse medicine - the practice of eating human body parts and fluids - was the standard of care.
Warning: Nauseating content
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Falun Gong, by Richard Sugg
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/
https://www.historyextra.com/period/renaissance/cannibalism-history-corpse-medicine/
http://aeans.aethelmearc.org/wp-content/uploads/vasc/as-entry-2020.pdf
82 επεισόδια
Manage episode 333394149 series 2996588
Would you eat human brains to cure yourself of a tummy ache? I didn't think so. But there was a time, centuries ago, when this was the script for what ailed you! Venture back into the dark ages with me to a time when corpse medicine - the practice of eating human body parts and fluids - was the standard of care.
Warning: Nauseating content
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Falun Gong, by Richard Sugg
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/
https://www.historyextra.com/period/renaissance/cannibalism-history-corpse-medicine/
http://aeans.aethelmearc.org/wp-content/uploads/vasc/as-entry-2020.pdf
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