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To: Solon who wrote (17428)5/9/2004 12:59:02 PM
From: average joe  Respond to of 28931
 
There was a story on CBC discussing this ancient vitamin supplement. When the supply of mummies ran out in the 17th century newly dead convicts would be quickly embalmed and then ground up to supply the mummy trade. The use of the newly dead mummies spread the plague, syphilis and a whole host of other diseases and parasites.