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

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The title recommends something more unusual, but in the end, this is really a work about Medicine and what Humans have used regarding saving peoples lives that would shock modern people.

Mummies, Cannibals And Vampires The History Of Corpse Medicine From The Renaissance To The Victorians ( Richard Sugg) (z Lib. The Servant Who Was Frightened to Death - We often joke about being “frightened to death,” but it appears that in the nineteenth century some people really could be killed by fear. And the range of sources is not confined merely to the English literature or to the English speaking world. I also knew that some remedies in this class continued much longer than anyone in the 21 st century might care to think. Certainly a cure involving splitting live pigeons was recorded in Deptford in 1900 (Opie and Tatem , A Dictionary of Superstitions OUP 1989).I also enjoy how us Europeans are forced to reconcile with the fact that we are huge hypocrites and as beastialistic as all other people on earth.

Not everything that appears on this blog, including individual ideas or opinions, is necessarily endorsed by the Department of English Studies or by Durham University. And when people voyaged from Europe to the New World for the first time, the culture shock must have been severe enough to make almost any legend or rumor plausible. Addeddate 2022-07-09 17:05:26 Identifier mummies-cannibals-and-vampires-the-history-of-corpse-medicine-from-the-renaissan Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2z2nht0v7f Ocr tesseract 5.Very detailed and complex dissection of the history, use, philosophy, and general decline of corpse medicine in the Western World. Lit by the uncanny glow of a lamp filled with human blood, this second edition includes new material on exo-cannibalism, skull medicine, the blood-drinking of Scandinavian executions, Victorian corpse-stroking, and the magical powers of candles made from human fat.