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Routledge - Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: Corpse Medicine

Name: Routledge - Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: Corpse Medicine
Brand: Routledge
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Explore the shocking and largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine with this comprehensive text by Richard Sugg. Published by Routledge, this book details a period when kings, scientists, and priests used human remains as medical treatments. Discover how people throughout the Renaissance and Victorian eras prescribed and consumed human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains, and skin. This work explains how these practices were used to treat a wide range of ailments, including epilepsy, wounds, plague, cancer, gout, and depression. Rather than being a relic of the medieval era, Sugg demonstrates that corpse medicine reached its peak during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain. This book provides an accessible look at how these unusual medical traditions survived well into the modern age, offering a unique perspective on the history of medical science and social practice.

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Detailed historical account of European corpse medicine from the Renaissance through the Victorian era.

Covers the use of human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains, and skin in various medical treatments.

Explores how different social classes, from kings to scientists, utilized these medical practices.

Examines the treatment of specific conditions like epilepsy, plague, cancer, and depression.

Provides an accessible text that challenges the idea that corpse medicine was strictly a medieval practice.

Analyzes the survival of these traditions during the scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1138933988
Category: Books > Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Occult > Witchcraft
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 27 November 2015
Listed Since: 28 May 2015

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