"Whilst corpse medicine has sometimes been presented as a medieval therapy, it was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain. It survived well into the 18th century, and amongst the poor it lingered stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria." - British Royalty Dined On Human Flesh - Dailymail.co.uk
"Medicinal cannibalism used the formidable weight of European science, publishing, trade networks and educated theory. It survived well into the 18th century, and amongst the poor it lingered stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria. - British Royalty Dined On Human Flesh - Dailymail.co.uk
There was so much blood flowing from beheadings and other barbaric practices the poor in Europe also tried to use whatever resources they could to treat health maladies.
"Over in continental Europe, where the axe fell routinely on the necks of criminals, blood was the medicine of choice for many epileptics. In Denmark the young Hans Christian Andersen saw parents getting their sick child to drink blood at the scaffold. So popular was this treatment that hangmen routinely had their assistants catch the blood in cups as it spurted from the necks of dying felons." British Royalty Dined On Human Flesh - Dailymail.co.uk
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