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The long and gruesome history of using corpses in medicine

iheartchaos:

Last week, there was a story about a large shipment of ground up baby pills from China, seized by South Korean authorities and everyone was like “ewww China”. But it’s not just China— corpses have been used as medicine in Europe and almost everywhere else in the world at some time and place. It seems like a bad idea now, but some believed in the healing power of ground up dead people.

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Both weird and interesting. Man, people are cray.

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    Both weird and interesting. Man, people are cray.
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