{"id":686,"date":"2015-04-14T09:51:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T09:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/?p=686"},"modified":"2015-04-14T12:39:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T12:39:32","slug":"morbid-terminology-corpse-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/2015\/04\/14\/morbid-terminology-corpse-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Terminology: Corpse Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The act of using parts of deceased humans for medical purposes is defined by the term &#8220;medical cannibalism&#8221; or &#8220;corpse medicine&#8221;. Blood transfusions and organ transplants are modern forms of &#8220;corpse medicine&#8221;. In the past, parts of corpses were thought to be able to cure nearly everything from a nosebleed to epilepsy and as such were used in various medical traditions.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to note that this wasn&#8217;t the case in Babylonian medicine, except for human bones which were a very rare ingredient in some recipes and sometimes used in rituals.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a title=\"Corpse Medicine\" href=\"https:\/\/bonesdontlie.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/08\/new-morbid-terminology-corpse-medicine\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marius Hoppe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The act of using parts of deceased humans for medical purposes is defined by the term &#8220;medical cannibalism&#8221; or &#8220;corpse medicine&#8221;. Blood transfusions and organ transplants are modern forms of &#8220;corpse medicine&#8221;. In the past, parts of corpses were thought to be able to cure nearly everything from a nosebleed to epilepsy and as such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/babylonianmedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}