Egyptomania, Mummy Parties & Cannibal Medicine

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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING SUGGESTIONS 

Dolan, Maria  “The Gruesome History Of. Eating Corpses As Medicine”. SMITHSONIAN. 6 May 2012. ACCESSED 5 Sept 2023. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/

“Mummies as Medicine: Medical Cannibalism”  Indiana Medical History Museum  8 Oct 2020. Accessed 6 Sept 2023. https://www.imhm.org/blog/9305574

Morales, Marie. “Victorian People Unwrap Egyptian Mummies for Post-Dinner Entertaining Believing It Can Treat Diseases”. SCIENCE TIMES  12 June 2022. Accessed 5 Sept 2023. https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/38162/20220612/victorian-people-unwrap-egyptian-mummies-post-dinner-entertainment-believing-treat.htm

Hames, Marcus. “Why did people start eating Egyptian mummies? The weird and wild ways mummy fever swept through Europe”. 6 June 2022. ACCESSED 5 Sept 2023. https://theconversation.com/why-did-people-start-eating-egyptian-mummies-the-weird-and-wild-ways-mummy-fever-swept-through-europe-177551

Carr, Mariel  “Mummies and The Usefulness of Death”. Science History Institute  13 Oct 2014. ACCESSED 5 Sept 2023. https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/mummies-and-the-usefulness-of-death/

Dawson, Warren R. “Mummy as a Drug”. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 1927 Nov; 21(1):34-39. NIH. Accessed 5 Sept 2023. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2101801/pdf/procrsmed01192-0163.pdf

Blakemore, Erin. “The Gory History of Europe’s Mummy Eating Fad”  NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. 1 May 2023. Accessed 10 Sept 2023. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eating-medical-cannibalism-gory-history#:~:text=%E2%80%8BDue%20to%20a%20series,could%20cure%20them%20of%20disease.&text=Feeling%20ill%3F,a%20side%20of%20Egyptian%20mummy.

Moshenska, Gabriel. “The Myth of Mummy Wheat”. History Today. Sept 2017 VOL 67 ISSUE 9.  Accessed 13 Sept 2023. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/myth-mummy-wheat

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