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Storyteller. Medical historian (Oxford, PhD). TV Host. Conveyor of nightmarish history. Book: THE BUTCHERING ART.

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    Lindsey Fitzharris‏Verified account @DrLindseyFitz 11 Feb 2020

    (1/10) THREAD 👇My sole purpose in life is to arm you with gruesome facts that will ensure you have something horrible on hand to shock people at parties. So let's get started with CORPSE MEDICINE.pic.twitter.com/t4FzfyhX9u

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      2. Lindsey Fitzharris‏Verified account @DrLindseyFitz 11 Feb 2020

        (2/10) In the past, some people believed that the blood of executed criminals could cure epilepsy. They would gather close to the scaffold to catch the hot liquid as it spurted from the severed arteries of the neck, and then drink it in the hope it might cure them.pic.twitter.com/gVgOKTCmXp

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      3. Lindsey Fitzharris‏Verified account @DrLindseyFitz 11 Feb 2020

        (3/10) In Denmark, the young Hans Christian Andersen witnessed parents forcing their sick child to drink blood at the scaffold. So popular was this treatment, that executioners routinely had their assistants catch blood in cups to be sold later to the sick.pic.twitter.com/DsOLub8jRc

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      4. Lindsey Fitzharris‏Verified account @DrLindseyFitz 11 Feb 2020

        (4/10) Even the severed heads on London Bridge were employed for medicinal purposes. In the 16th century, a number of Germans working at the Royal Mint in London fell suddenly ill (likely from the exposure to copper fumes).pic.twitter.com/DnLVyCetIw

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      5. Lindsey Fitzharris‏Verified account @DrLindseyFitz 11 Feb 2020

        (5/10) According to some beliefs, drinking from a cup made from a human skull could have miraculous therapeutic effects. With this in mind, the heads from Tower Bridge were removed, the flesh boiled off, and the skulls fashioned into drinking vessels for the immigrant workers.pic.twitter.com/LsuoA7NZwC

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      6. Lindsey Fitzharris‏Verified account @DrLindseyFitz 11 Feb 2020

        (6/10) The 16th-century Paracelsus advocated drinking blood for curative purposes. One of his followers suggested taking blood from the living. For those who preferred their blood cooked, a 1679 recipe from a Franciscan apothecary describes how to make it into marmalade.pic.twitter.com/4Qc7oVpAnG

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      7. Lindsey Fitzharris‏Verified account @DrLindseyFitz 11 Feb 2020

        (7/10) Nothing was wasted when it came to the corpse of a criminal. The fat was especially prized by surgeons. In 1736, a woman in Norfolk sold the corpulent body of her executed husband to a surgeon for half a guinea, a considerable sum at that time!pic.twitter.com/rSgbSK1NOB

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      8. Lindsey Fitzharris‏Verified account @DrLindseyFitz 11 Feb 2020

        (8/10) Medicinal cannibalism existed in other forms. One of the most common human substances used by apothecaries was ground mummy, sometimes referred to as mummy, or THE MENSTRUATION OF THE DEAD. Mumia was sold medicinally as late as 1908 in the Merck Catalogue.pic.twitter.com/0g8ldibYIP

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      9. Lindsey Fitzharris‏Verified account @DrLindseyFitz 11 Feb 2020

        (9/10) Cannibalistic medical practices such as these seem far removed from our own culture. However, the utilization of body parts for medicinal purposes still persists today, albeit in different forms - such as organ transplantation.pic.twitter.com/O70LckUigr

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      10. Lindsey Fitzharris‏Verified account @DrLindseyFitz 11 Feb 2020

        (10/10) I hope you enjoyed tonight’s thread and are suitably armed with gruesome history facts to horrify people at your next party! If you want to know more about CORPSE MEDICINE, check out my video on my YouTube Channel #UnderTheKnife:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsbP9ONUWWM …

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