Tag: corpse medicine
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Medicinal Cannibalism For Treating What Ails You
Louise Noble, an English lecturer in Australia, wondered why “mummy” was used in a John Donne poem and discovered: “that word [mummy] recurs throughout the literature of early modern Europe…,” reveals Maria Dolan in a recent Smithsonian article, “The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine.” But why? The discovery that informed Noble, “…mummies and…
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Dead Body Discovered on Queen’s Sandringham Estate
The body of a young girl was discovered January 1st on Queen Elizabeth’s Sandringham estate in eastern England. Sandringham is the private home to four generations of British Royals.