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Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Middle

Description: One thing we are not taught at school is this: James I refused corpse medicine; Charles II made his own corpse medicine; and Charles I was made into corpse medicine. Ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in fact the Europeans. Picking our way through the bloodstained shadows of this remarkable secret history, we encounter medicine cut from bodies living and dead, sacks of human fat harvested after a gun battle, gloves made of human skin, and the first mummy to appear on the London stage. 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. In our quest to understand the strange paradox of routine Christian cannibalism we move from the Catholic vampirism of the Eucharist, through the routine filth and discomfort of early modern bodies, and in to the potent, numinous source of corpse medicine’s ultimate power: the human soul itself. This third edition features a wealth of new material, including eyewitness accounts of scaffold blood drinking; a Kansas vampire sect of the 1880s; dissection and bodysnatching; rare gems from the darkest realms of corpse magic; and shocking allegations of systematic organ murders in 21st century China. Welcome to perhaps the greatest whitewash in world history.

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Book Title: Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Co

Book Series: S-D-F-D

Original Language: English

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Format: Paperback

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Language: English

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Topic: Medicine

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Publication Year: 2020

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Author: Richard Sugg

Genre: History

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Item Weight: 1.39 pounds

Number of Pages: ‎ 426 pages

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