Have you ever seen this on period drama? In Austria, Germany and Denmark, people routinely drank hot blood for medicine at beheadings. And in Sweden, things could get worse. One thing we are not taught at school is this: James I refused corpse medicine; Charles II made his own corpse medicine; and Charles I was made into corpse medicine.

From my best-selling book, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Falun Gong.