Until the late 18th century, human flesh was used in the pharmaceutical industry

In 1664 in London he published "The Complete Book of Chemistry" Nicolae Lefebvre, known pharmacist. First of all, I wrote the pharmacist to cut the muscles of the body healthy and young men, soak them in wine alcohol, and then hang in a cool, dry place. If the air is very humid and the rain, that "these muscles need to hang up in the pipe, and every day to dry them on a mild fire of juniper, with needles and knobs, to the state of corned beef that sailors take a long voyage».

In Europe, butchers selling directly to the scaffold, and fresh blood "human fat" for pharmaceutical purposes, and the church seems to recognize this practice legal. At least the soldiers of Hernan Cortes cut fat for human needs healing in front of the two priests and the military, according to the chronicles, we had never heard the protest on their part. Pharmaceuticals openly consumed corpses of executed criminals, who died in hospice or killed Christians, and the robbers stole corpses from their graves, dismembered them and digested in kettles. Oily liquid (analogue ointment) came true for big money.

In 1564, French physician Guy De la Fontaine from Navarre on request of one of the merchants in Alexandria saw piles of bodies for processing in medicine. John Sanderson, Alexandria agent of the Turkish trading company in 1585 received orders to join the trade mummy - so then called processed corpses. About 600 pounds of dried and mummified dead bodies Sanderson sent to England. This huge amount of money. In the XIII century on the testimony of doctor Abdel-Latif, mummy, scraped three human skulls, sold for poldirhema (dirham - a silver coin weighing 297 g).

This is not strictly a European tradition, of course. In Burma insisted on the corpses of honey, and honey, which contained the remains of a monk, and did was a panacea. Normal sympathetic magic. The same reverence for the body of a holy man was in Japan after three years of shrinkage body was cut and used.

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