By L. Noble
Medicinal Cannibalism in Early glossy English Literature and tradition examines an immense second within the lengthy background of the scientific use and abuse of the human physique. In early sleek Protestant England, the fragmented corpse used to be processed, circulated, and ingested as a beneficial drug in a scientific economic system underpinned through a brutal judicial procedure. In a meticulous engagement with an in depth diversity of scientific, non secular, and literary texts, Louise Noble exhibits how early smooth writers grew to become keen about medicinal cannibalism and its uncanny hyperlink to the contested Eucharist sacrament. within the approach, Noble issues out startling continuities among early sleek and modern clinical consumptions of the physique.
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Indd 23 3/1/2011 4:10:30 PM 24 Medicina l C a nniba lism to the belief in the recuperative powers of the human body. ”43 A strange medical logic runs through much of the commentary on the execution of those who had no real social future: while alive, their bodies were a burden on the nation; in death, their corpses have the power to serve a public good. This logic holds sway in the organ transplant industry today; the harvesting of cadaver parts is often explained in terms of social redemption or efficacy, as in this statement from an organ procurement coordinator: We see all the really bad cases— the dregs of humanity.
The Skin is recommended in difficult Labours, and hysteric affections, and for a Withering and Contraction of the Joints. The Fat strengthens, discusses, eases Pains, cures Contractions, mollifies the Hardness of Cicatrices, and fill up the pits left by the Measles. The Bones dried, discuss, astringe, stop all Sorts of Fluxes, and are therefore useful for Catarrh, Flux of the Menses, Dysentry, and Lientery; and mitigate Pains of the Joints. The Marrow is highly commended for Contractions of the Limbs.
66 Moreover, the words of Rollyard in James Shirley’s The Bird in a Cage, “Make Mummy of my flesh, and sell me to the Apothecaries,”67 suggestively implicate apothecaries in corpse pharmacology and serve as a bleak reminder that the path from healthy body to swallowed medical substance was relatively smooth. Rollyard’s inference, that apothecaries were willing traders in all kinds of mummy, is consistent with the public’s general mistrust of apothecaries and the many charges of fraud and abuse leveled at them.
