Insane Vintage Health Tips That People Actually Practiced

Human Corpses Were On The Dinner Menu

European nobility would pay for ancient Egyptian mummies, as well as fresher Irish graves, to be robbed and turned into all sorts of potions and creams to treat everything from epilepsy and nosebleeds to headaches. (Full disclosure: these were not effective treatments by any means.)

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