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"Renaissance pharmacists kept human ingredients in stock and, for impulse buyers, made them highly visible and affordably priced. German officials recommended that pharmacists stocked no fewer than 23 different varieties of human body parts. A model inventory from 1652 included dried flesh, mumie ("the menstruation of the dead"), "human grains", marinated human flesh, human fat, usnea (moss growing on a skull of an executed criminal), and spirit of bone, all applied topically or mixed in a very stiff drink."

(Nathan Belofsky, "Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages".