TIL during the early modern period, Europeans consumed “mummy powder,” ground from ancient Egyptian mummies, as a cure-all. Physicians claimed it healed all sorts of ailments. Demand grew so high that fresh corpses (often executed criminals) were treated as mummies to meet supply.
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The Problems of the Flesh
A key part of medical drugs is their consumption by patients, linking materia medica to bodies. This connection represents the value of medical drugs but also the major cause for concern.www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
