Throughout history, physicians used human remains in medical treatments, and the practice lasted well into the 19th century.
In the mid-1600s, German chemist Johann Schröder had a recipe for vitality he thought would benefit anyone looking to add pep back into their step.. Not just any corpse would do. Schröder wanted a healthy man, ruddy in complexion and around 24 years old. The man must have died a violent death, as opposed to passing from illness.
Schröder was one of many medical practitioners who practiced corpse medicine, a form of medical cannibalism that dated to ancient times. For thousands of years, physicians used human flesh, blood or bones to treat a variety of ailments. It’s a nauseating part of medical history that persisted in places like Europe, well into the 19th century.mentions of this, other records date the practice to ancient China, Greece, India, the Roman Empire and parts of the Middle East.
Claudius Galenus, for example, was a Greek physician born in the second century, who treated Roman gladiators. Galenus on medical theory that carried through to the 17th century. He believed in the four bodily humors and the importance of keeping a healthy balance between a person’s blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile. And according to, it made sense to him that healthy blood from a vigorous person could treat ailments in an unhealthy person.
Galenus encouraged people with epilepsy to attend gladiator events with a cup in hand so they could collect the warm blood flowing from the dying, or wounded gladiator, and gulp it down.in places like Denmark, where crowds with cups attended executions in the hopes of leaving with a few sips of fresh, hot blood. Blood consumption was one of the many ways the bodies of executed prisoners fueled medical cannibalism.
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