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“To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.”

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George Cheyne, born in 1671, was an influential British physician known for his significant contributions to the fields of nutrition and gastrointestinal diseases. more

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