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Mellified man: the ancient practice of honey-mummifying a human for medicine
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Mellified man: the ancient practice of honey-mummifying a human for medicine

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A 16th-century Chinese medical text describes elderly men in Arabia who ate only honey until death, then spent 100 years in a honey-filled coffin to become medicine.

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