Sources from Episode 113

  1. John Ross Browne, An American Family in Germany (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1866).

  2. Mariel Carr, “Mummies and the Usefulness of Death,” Science History Institute, Fall 2014/Winter 2015, https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/mummies-and-the-usefulness-of-death.

  3. Cornelius Celsus, On Medicine, http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Celsus/3*.html#ref61.

  4. Karl H. Dannenfeldt, “Egyptian Mumia: The Sixteenth Century Experience and Debate,” The Sixteenth Century Journal, 16, no. 2 (Summer, 1985): 163-80.

  5. Owen Davies and Francesca Matteoni, “‘A Virtue Beyond All Medicine:’ The Hanged Man’s Hand, Gallows Tradition and Healing in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England,” Social History of Medicine 28, no 4: 686-705.

  6. Owen Davies and Francesca Matteoni, Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

  7. Maria Dolan, “The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine,” Smithsonian Magazine, 5/6/2012, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284.

  8. Lindsey Fitzharris, “Drinking Blood and Eating Flesh: Corpse Medicine in Early Modern England,” https://www.drlindseyfitzharris.com/2011/02/25/drinking-blood-and-eating-flesh-corpse-medicine-in-early-modern-england.

  9. Hoare, James. “Why Superstitious Thieves Turned Severed Hands into Candles for Good Luck.” The Vintage News. 1/5/2019. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/01/05/hand-of-glory.

  10. “The Hand of Glory,” Myths and Legends, http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/origins15607-the-hand-of-glory.html.

  11. Bess Lovejoy, “A Brief History of Medical Cannibalism: Curing What Ails Us with Mummy, Blood Jam, and Human Fat,” Lapham’s Quarterly, 11/7/2016, https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/brief-history-medical-cannibalism.

  12. Louise Noble, Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

  13. Mable Peacock, “Executed Criminals and Folk-Medicine,” Folklore 7, no. 3 (Sept., 1896): 268-83.

  14. Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Translated by W. H. S. Jones, Loeb Classical Library, Volume 41 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975).

  15. Richard Shears, “Thousands of Pills Filled with Powdered Human Baby Flesh Discovered by Customs Officials in South Korea,” DailyMail, 5/8/2012, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140702/South-Korea-customs-officials-thousands-pills-filled-powdered-human-baby-flesh.html.

  16. Dolly Stolze, “Hand of Glory: The Macabre Magic of Severed Hands,” Atlas Obscura, 4/7/2014, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-severed-hands.

  17. Richard Sugg, “Corpse Medicine: Mummies, Cannibals, and Vampires,” The Art of Medicine 371 (June, 2008): 2078-790.

  18. Richard Sugg, Mummies, Cannibals, and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Rennaissance to the Victorians (New York: Routledge, 2016).

  19. Natalie Zarelli, “European ‘Corpse Medicine’ Promised Better Health Through Cannibalism,” Atlas Obscura, Oct. 31, 2017, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/corpse-medicine.