Powdered Mummy, Gladiator Blood, and other Historical Medicines Made from Human Corpses
An Adam’s apple a day keeps the doctor away? History is full of bizarre medical remedies, but few are as gruesome as the field of corpse medicine. Many doctors, from ancient times to modern, prescribed concoctions made of human organs, salves of human fat, and the ground-up remains of embalmed corpses to treat a host […]
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