Revisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains

<p>Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains</p>

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<p>Before modern medicine, some cures came from the grave. For centuries, Europeans swallowed powdered skull, drank human blood, and consumed ground-up&nbsp;mummies in the belief that&nbsp;the dead could heal the living. It sounds like folklore, but corpse medicine was once accepted as a real treatment for everything from headaches to epilepsy.</p>