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Author(s): Gordon-Grube, Karen
Source:
Early American Literature. Dec93, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p185. 37p.
Subject Terms:
*HISTORY of medicine

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- Subject Terms:
  UNITED Kingdom
- Subject Terms:
  TAYLOR, Edward, 1642-1729
- Abstract:
  Discusses the practice of medicinal cannibalism in puritan New England which was participated in by poet Edward Taylor. Ingestion of medicinally prepared human flesh; Paracelsus; `Dispensatory'.