Cannibalistic medicine and the ingestion of corpses was an accepted medical practice from the medieval period right upto the 19th century. Peaking during the 16th and 17th century medicines containing human fat, brains, and blood were popular from the lowest in society to the highest. In fact the highest in society in England King Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685), manufactured and sold his own patent medicine to promote health and strength made from powdered human skull. Named ‘The Kings Drops’, Charles II had purchased the recipe from the English surgeon Jonathan Goddard (1617–1675), who had been surgeon to the armies of the Lord Protector of England Oliver Cronwell, (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) the man who had ordered the execution of his father Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649). Skull based medicines were popular in the 17th century, and considered the best cure for apoplexy, the term used in the period for strokes, internal bleeding and heartattacks. The label is original ofgraveconcern artwork based upon historical medical advertising.