European medicinal cannibalism prized Libyan corpses for their fearful deaths

Evidence

According to Charles II’s chemist, Libyan corpses were the best because of the cause of death-suffocation, which “doth concentrate the spirits in all the parts by reason of the fear and sudden surprisal which seizes on the travellers.” See Karen Gordon-Grube, “Anthropophagy in Post-Renaissance Europe: The Tradition of Medicinal Cannibalism,” American Anthropologist 90, no. 2 (1988): 406, http://www. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 1007

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