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Romans used human feces as medicine 1,900 years ago — and used thyme to mask the smell
A new study shows that organic residues from a Roman-era glass medicinal vial came from human feces.
When some ancient Romans were feeling a little under the weather, they were treated with human feces. While this practice was ...
At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...
Do as the Romans doo? It’s not just plumbing that the ancient Italians pioneered. Turkish scientists have found a ...
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1900-year-old Roman doctor used human feces and thyme as medicine, study suggests
A cringeworthy new study has discovered dark-brown flakes inside a Roman glass medicinal vial, ...
Physicians of the Roman empire had a knack for making remedies from an assortment of components from various animals, ...
In the wee hours of the morning in a lab in Amherst, Massachusetts, geoscience graduate student Rob D’Anjou sat looking over test results, a pot of coffee nearby. He’d been pulling long days to ...
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