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A Renaissance Merchant's Book of Fashion

• coldcode 12y ago
  Fascinating. Reading the article they mentioned what surely has to be the oddest medicine ever: powdered mummies.
  • thret 12y ago
    Ground up mummies also made a popular paint colour: Mummy Brown. http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/mummy-brown-16th-century-paint-made-ground-mummies-001716 http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/mummy-brow...
  • richardwigley 12y ago
    This article has a section on Mummy - apparently it had become an accepted treatment for a wide selection of ailments. http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brown.html http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brow... Mummy, or “mumia”, was typically the ground-up body, or body parts, applied topically to be rubbed on, or mixed into drinks to swallow. Its medical benefits were proclaimed in standard pharmacopoeia and extensively promoted by physicians, apothecaries and barber-surgeons [18]. By the 16th and 17th centuries it had become one of the most common drugs found in the apothecaries’ shops of Europe [19].
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