Kremlin’s bizarre bloody bathing

Balneum animale in red deer’s blood

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The last time the medical community considered the benefits of bathing in animal blood was in 1848. Gray’s Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia mentioned a bizarre procedure “to transfer vitality from a killed animal to a human” by wrapping parts of the animal around the human. The young Kaiser Wilhelm II had left-arm palsied from birth and was given this treatment.

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