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The History of Mummy Consumption
The consumption of fellow human beings has a long heritage. The romans did it, they drank gladiator blood. They would grind up bones and drink it as a broth. In the seventeenth century, in the 16 hundreds, we have various doctor saying that moss grown on a human skull can help cure you. And there are various recipes for haltotera, terabinthenate, i think is the word, anow, various bits of mummy skull. It's a really intriguing thing that basically any part of the body was sort of considere be of medical use.
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