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Royalty 'dined on human flesh'
British royalty dined on human flesh, a new book on medicinal cannibalism reveals.
British royalty dined on human flesh, a new book on medicinal cannibalism reveals.
The well-off and well educated in Britain and Europe swallowed parts of the human body, including its flesh, blood and bones, as medicine right up until the end of the 18th century, it is claimed.
Even as they denounced the barbaric cannibals of the New World, they applied, drank, or wore powdered Egyptian mummy, human fat, flesh, bone, blood, brains and skin.
Moss taken from the skulls of dead soldiers was even used as a cure for nosebleeds, Durham University academic Dr Richard Sugg writes.
The author, from the university's department of English Studies, argues that the Europeans were the real cannibals.
He said: "The human body has been widely used as a therapeutic agent with the most popular treatments involving flesh, bone or blood.
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