Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine From the Renaissance to the Victorians

Human blood was also swallowed: sometimes fresh and hot, direct from a donor’s body; sometimes dried, powdered, or distilled with alchemical precision.

John Donne (Palgrave, 2007), and Murder after Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England (Cornell University Press, 2007).