EPISODE · Jul 3, 2026 · 30 MIN
Revisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains
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Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting Corpse Medicine - When Doctors Prescribed Human Remains Before modern medicine, some cures came from the grave. For centuries, Europeans swallowed powdered skull, drank human blood, and consumed ground-up mummies in the belief that 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.
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