Join Kelli as she teaches you about a very common but forgotten medical practice in Europe during the Medieval and Early Modern Periods - consuming the skin, bones, and blood of corpses as medicine.

The history of cannibalism just got even more unpopular.

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Sources referenced in the podcast:
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians by Richard Sugg

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