Mummy Medicine

**This post contains affiliate links, and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.

Lindsay and Madison discuss mummia, as well as how to desecrate all the corpses, that more people practiced cannibalism than you make think, and how long it was considered “medicine”.

Information pulled from the following sources:

• 2023 Mental Floss article by Michele Debczak

• 2022 USCDornsife article by Margaret Crable

• 2021 The Serpent’s Pen article by David Castleton

• 2020 Medical News Today article by Maria Cohut, Ph.D

• 2015 The Pharmaceutical Journal article by Peter Homan

• 2014 Science History Institute Health & Medicine article by Mariel Carr

• 2013 Organic Chemistry article by Barbara M. Scholz-Böttcher, Arie Nissenbaum, Jürgen Rullkötter

• 2012 Smithsonian Magazine article by Maria Dolan

• 1927 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine article by Warren R. Dawson

• Digit with Raven article

• Wikipedia (1)

Go check out our friends Ash and Jordan over at the Creepy Tapas podcast.

Send us your listener questions to bit.ly/AskYOC.

Become a member on Buy Me A Coffee for as little as $1/month to support the show. 

Get your groceries and essentials delivered in as fast as 1 hour via Instacart. Free delivery on your first 3 orders. Min $10 per order. Terms apply.

You can write to us at: Ye Olde Crime Podcast, PO Box 341, Wyoming, MN 55092. Join the conversation over at the Cultiv8 Discord and join the Olde Crimers Cubby to chat with us and other listeners of the show.

Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Spotify, Podcast Addict, Audible, or Goodpods!

Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube.

Buy us a Coffee