The Cannibal In The Apothecary: 300 Years of Corpse Medicine

August 31
41 mins

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For 300 years, Europeans ate human beings as medicine, with mummy powder, skull, the fat of the executed, and bought it over the counter from licensed apothecaries. During those same centuries, they were building an empire on the argument that the people they conquered were savages, because savages eat other people


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