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

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

Richard Sugg

456 pages • first pub 2011 (view editions)

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Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin ...

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