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Show Dried Mummies ai Medicine. Animal products were much used In medicine from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. D:;ed mummy "-as a favorite remedy. Th? Importation of tnum;ny was tin Industry of some commercial importance and several writers of that day caution against the ue of spurious mummy. Rlvine d;rec-t;ons d;rec-t;ons as m what distinguishes the pood from f l.o poor product. There was nim-h substitution, and one dealer was fou:ni lo have done an extensive trjulc In hodies dried in hnltalion of the Pennine article. NjitiotiHl Geogrtphic -! Society Bulletin. '' i |