The Wealthiest People Ate Human Corpses
People used to think that eating human flesh and drinking human blood could cure their body of diseases, and they even sometimes rubbed their skin onto their own. We’re going to go ahead and say that’s definitely not something that actually works.
Children Were Regularly Given Morphine
This drug is a highly addictive opiate, usually only used in extreme cases in hospitals, and it used to be sold in a syrup form over the counter. We can only imagine what these children were like after taking this medicine.