Corpse Medicine: Eating Egyptian Mummies

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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Myths, Folklore, Mystery, History, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Murder, Ufos, True Crime, Paranormal, Supernatural, Serial Killers

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A skull a day! People ate people in the name of medicine across Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Charles II kept powdered skull in a bag on his belt and mummified corpses were the greatest cure of all... but why? Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney visit the apothecary with guide Hannah Slajus, whose PhD was on human ingredients in medicinal remedies in seventeenth century.

Edited by Max Hennessy. Produced by Freddy Chick. The senior producer is Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Warner Brothers and Salem's Lot, the spine-tingling new horror film from the legendary Stephen King.
0:09.1	It is so exciting, it is that time of year. It is spooky season.
0:13.0	Oh, it's just the best time of year.
0:15.0	No surprise that we love this time of year, of course.
0:19.0	There is no better fit for this season than a good horror film.
0:22.0	Salem's lot is one of Stephen King's
0:25.1	favorite stories, I'm sure you've heard of it, and it's adapted from the 1975 best-selling
0:30.0	novel. Salim's Lot follows an author who returns to his hometown in Maine, but things are not as they should be. The place is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
0:42.1	Of course it is.
0:43.0	Why wouldn't it be the place is called Salem?
0:45.0	Salem's lot is the latest adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller.
0:49.0	From the creators of the record-breaking horror franchise, The Conjuring Universe.
0:53.0	So take yourself, your mom, your romantic date, or just a pillow to hide behind to see this
0:59.6	after dark endorsed vampire movie.
1:02.3	Salem's lot in cinemas October 11th.
1:05.0	It's the summer of 1527 in the large market town of Basel, Switzerland, complete with
1:20.5	newly built town hall. It's been 10 years since Martin Luther nailed his
1:25.5	demands to the church door at Wittenberg thereby kick-starting the
1:29.2	reformation. But the whiff of public melodrama and radical, even outlandish thinking, has hung in the air ever since,
1:38.0	sleeping into the minds of those who live close by.
1:41.0	Now, in our market square in Basil another equally shocking scene is about
1:47.4	to unfold. A famous Swiss physician is drawing a crowd. His full name is Philippus Arralius,
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