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/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19171183/#:~:text=Lichens%20growing%20on%20skulls%20were,the%20magnetic%20cure%20of%20wounds.

http://aeans.aethelmearc.org/wp-content/uploads/vasc/as-entry-2020.pdf

https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/opinion/using-a-mummy-as-a-medicine#:~:text=It%20is%20not%20known%20who,obtained%20from%20the%20Dead%20Sea.

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