Corpse Medicine

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Corpse medicine, or medicinal cannibalism, is the practice of eating human flesh as medicine. During the European Renaissance, it became incredibly popular for all kinds of ailments. In this episode we discuss why and which body parts were most often used to treat different medical conditions.

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0:00.0	This episode was suggested by several listeners, Ashleen C. on Facebook, Jordan H., Louisa, Kevin W., Christy O., and Holland M. on Patreon.
0:11.4	If you'd like to make a suggestion, you can do so on Twitter, at Morbid Podcast, on Facebook and Instagram, at Morbid Curiosity Podcast, and on our website, www.morbidcuriositypodcast.com.
0:25.8	This episode contains discussions about cannibalism or the consumption of human flesh by other humans,
0:32.1	mostly in a medical context, but also in a religious or ritual context.
0:36.7	If that's not something you want to hear about, this may be a good episode to skip.
0:40.3	Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:59.7	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages.
1:08.3	I am one of those people.
1:10.5	My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity
1:14.5	podcast. The fear of being eaten crosses both temporal and cultural boundaries.
1:40.3	It's a more present fear in childhood when we worry monsters or large animals will eat us,
1:45.9	but it's also something we don't like to think about much as adults.
1:49.7	The thought that cannibalism, humans eating other humans, has occurred in the human past and
1:55.1	sometimes occurs in the present, sparks feelings of not only fear, but also disgust in most modern cultures.
2:02.6	This is because most cultures believe that consuming the flesh of another human is taboo or against nature.
2:09.6	A person who commits cannibalism, as the phrase goes today, is thought by most people of Western societies to be insane, depraved, savage, uncivilized, and beast-like.
2:21.8	Our thoughts immediately fly to deranged serial killers cooking and eating their victims,
2:27.1	or highly fictionalized, highly racist depictions of ancient tribal peoples devouring their enemies.
2:33.2	However, these biased conceptions are not the
2:36.0	truth of the majority of cannibalistic acts. Most have more to do with memory, regeneration,
2:42.3	spirituality, and cultural order for those that practice it. For some cultures, eating the dead
2:47.9	helps the spirit of the deceased live on within the living members of the community,
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