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There is no direct link to the paper (only the journal), but I wonder if they considered this (apparently) previously common practice: http://www.smithsonianmag
by nonbel 10y ago
There is no direct link to the paper (only the journal), but I wonder if they considered this (apparently) previously common practice:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-o...
- MatthewWilkes 10y agoThe news article does say that the cuts were not consistent with butchery.
- eriknstr 10y agoDisturbing practice but interesting article. Good point about hypocrisy on the part of the people of that era. I was wondering though, what is meant in the following sentence: >And in 1908, a last known attempt was made in Germany to swallow blood at the scaffold. What does "swallow blood at the scaffold" mean in this context?
- kweks 10y agoScaffold refers to the structure used for execution by hanging. It's a somewhat clumsy phrase meaning: the last attempt to drink someone's blood after they were executed (presumably hanged)
- eriknstr 10y agoThanks, I thought it might be something relating to execution but was confused by the Google results which was had a Wikipedia article stating "scaffolding, also called scaffold or staging, is a temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials to aid in the construction, maintenance and repair" as well as a lot of pictures of such structures.