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Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians

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Rub fat on an ache, and it might ease your pain. Push powdered moss up your nose, and your nosebleed will stop. If you can afford the King’s Drops, the float of alcohol probably helps you forget you’re depressed—at least temporarily. In other words, these medicines may have been incidentally helpful—even though they worked by magical thinking, one more clumsy search for answers to the question of how to treat ailments at a time when even the circulation of blood was not yet understood. promoting and assisting with this new edition, and to Catherine Aitken. Thanks are due, also, to the four anonymous academic readers cases, to staunch bleeding. It could be used in a plaster against ruptures; and the physician George Thomson held that ‘the saline spirit was no accident. Here was a religious group which openly, habitually celebrated its eating and drinking of the body and blood of their We have seen that human fat was known as a medical agent in Germany from at least the 1520s, and from this time until the eighteenth

Richard Sugg has written a thorough and engaging examination of pre-modern corpse medicine, paying special attention to literary and cultural history. The new edition with its expanded online content makes this book equally appealing to advanced scholars and students of history, medicine, and literature. It is an excellent edition for graduate and undergraduate classroom use." the Stuarts, let us just briefly touch in some more detail on the cannibal habits of Charles II. As Antonia Fraser notes, Charles became anInterestingly, the Cathedral of Otranto, whose interior bears some resemblance to Sedlice’s bone church, has been in the news recently because one of the skulls there may have been used to make medicine. For more on this, see Dolly Stolze, at: Book of Secrets. This work would become immensely popular, running through innumerable editions and at least seven languages.66

First: the early Church father Tertullian thought fellatio to be cannibalistic. (Those women who protest about the calorific excesses I remember this “doctor” – I guess the year would be about 1952–53(I was 11 or 12) and I would watch this “doctor” call for people from the “audience” who hadmedical problems tocome to the front of the group and he would then sit them in a chair that was on top of a table – this gave the audience a good view of his method of treating corns and bunions etc. I think he applied some cream or ointment.bright enamelled colours of a coat of arms. You leap aside, recovering balance in time to see the carriage of the Duchess of Portsmouth The exposed body of a criminal ‘broken on the wheel’ can be seen in this Swedish engraving: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Files_from_Wellcome_Images&filefrom=%22Fading+away%22.+Oil+painting+attributed+to+E.+Kennedy.+Wellcome+V0017586.jpg#/media/File:%22Mode_of_Exhibiting_the_Bodies_of_Criminals_in_Sweden%22._Wellcome_L0027515.jpg in France.4 He later appointed the renowned and relatively avantgarde French scientist, Nicasius Lefevre, as royal chemist. Charles

Magnus? Our source for the claim is a sixteenth-century work, credited to the Swiss physician and herbalist Conrad Gesner (1516–65).indicate that the route to full-blown medicinal cannibalism was initially smoothed (or blurred), involving a path which began with legitimate desire for a mineral agent, and ultimately led to the widespread Ficino on one hand treats blood therapy as a routine form of rejuvenation (thus echoing Arnold), and that on the other he is quite happy The hope that an upside down vampire could not wriggle itself over hints at another forgotten truth: the real vampires were not evil aristocratic masterminds with chilling plans for world dominance. Frankly, they were pretty dim. Mercia MacDermott explains that in Bulgaria ‘one could get rid of a vampire by approaching him with a warm loaf and inviting him to go to some distant place on the pretext of a fair or a wedding, and then abandoning him there. Alternatively, one could send him to get fish from the Danube, where he would fall in and be drowned’. She and Paul Barber add that numerous seeds, including millet, mustard and poppy, might be strewn along the path to the grave, as well as left in the grave itself. Perhaps suffering an early form of OCD, the vampire must count all these, and so is too busy to get to your bed and scare you to death. Count Dracula indeed… Galenists’ were the more conservative physicians who followed the teachings of Claudius Galen (c.120–200 ad). From the later sixteenth century on, they were increasingly opposed by the Paracelsians (q.v.). agreed – be derived from a man who had met a violent death, preferably by hanging or drowning. These were the most common drugs

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