ABSTRACT
Disease and medicine, were all too often grim, dirty and disgusting in the era. To plague and the English Sweat people add tuberculosis, smallpox, and the frequent cot or infant deaths which comes down to people in the bare outlines of baptismal and burial records. People have seen that those undergoing surgery would rarely be in any state to quibble about cannibalistic medicines. They have begun to relocate corpse medicine-to see it within medical and social worlds since mercifully faded from our eyes, noses and skins. If people could tolerate the everyday filth and irritation, then their tolerance of medicinal cannibalism have been moulded accordingly. In the chapter, people meet an intriguing fusion of alchemy, shit and science, as technology endeavours to cure its own diseases. Kathy Stuart, notes an immensely popular German work, 'the Salutary Apothecary of Filth, wherein almost all diseases are cured with Excrement and Urine, by the physician and professor of medicine Christian Franz Paulani'.
