Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, when kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribed, swallowed or wore human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin against epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, canc
Histories from the Renaissance to the Present
โ Scribed by Porter, Roy
- Year
- 0
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Series
- Rewriting the Self
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0203439155
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