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Mummia, mumia, or originally mummy referred to several different preparations in the history of medicine, from "mineral pitch" to "powdered human mummies". It originated from Arabic mūmiyā "a type of resinous bitumen found in Western Asia and used curatively" in traditional Islamic medicine , which was translated as pissasphaltus (from "pitch ...
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Bencao Gangmu calls the concoction miren (蜜人), translated as "honey person" or "mellified man".Miziren (蜜漬人 "honey-saturated person") is a modern synonym. The place it comes from is Tianfangguo, an old name for Arabia or the Middle East.
A folk medicine during the Joseon period was the consumption of faeces-infused water to ease the throats of singers. [ 4 ] In Tomo Imamura's book Chōsen Fūzoku-shū , a collection of Korean customs and traditions, written during the Japanese occupation of Korea , it is stated that some people wrapped their faeces in black rags, exposing them ...
An 18th-century albarello used for storing mummia Medical or medicinal cannibalism is the consumption of parts of the human body, dead or alive, to treat or prevent diseases. The medical trade and pharmacological use of human body parts and fluids often arose from the belief that because the human body is able to heal itself, it can also help ...
The first modern scientific examinations of mummies began in 1901, conducted by professors at the English-language Government School of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt. The first X-ray of a mummy came in 1903, when professors Grafton Elliot Smith and Howard Carter used the only X-ray machine in Cairo at the time to examine the mummified body of ...
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Ibn Sina (Persian: ابن سینا, romanized: Ibn Sīnā; c. 980 – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna (/ ˌ æ v ɪ ˈ s ɛ n ə, ˌ ɑː v ɪ-/), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, [4] [5] flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. [6]