Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians
'This book is full of rich detail, making you both recoil and yet read on, fascinated by our ancestors’ imaginative ways to try and heal the sick. '–Cotswold History Blog"I do not write this lightly -Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victoriansis one of the most eye-opening and phenomenal books I have ever read. It is incredibly well researched, well written and states the case of medicinal cannibalism throughout the ages with great detail and reference. There is no other book like it and I feel so fortunate to have it upon my shelf...It would be a fantastic book to accompany a college class of the same subject."-Amazon.com Customer Review, 5 Stars"Sugg's book offers iteself as a 'history' of corpse medicine. Though it is the work of a well-known literary scholar,Mummies, Cannibals and Vampiresinvokes imaginative writing only to augment the evidence it draws from medical and scientific texts... Sugg's interest in corpse medicine reaches well beyond mumia to inspect all those strange concoctions of human tissue and waste favoured by early modern pharmacology"–Michael Neill, London Review of Books.