Researchers found a tiny bottle from ancient Rome that contained fecal residue and traces of aromatics, offering evidence that poop was used medicinally more than 2,000 years ago.

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When some ancient Romans were feeling a little under the weather, they were treated with human feces. While this practice was mentioned in ancient Greco-Roman medical texts by figures such as Pliny ...

Researchers analyzing proteins from fingerprints and other residue in a 16 th-century medicinal guide found evidence of strange ingredients actually being used in the treatment of patients. Remedies ...

"Anything you can give me, I'll make something out of it," she said. In 2019, Moudgil lost her husband to an aggressive cancer. Before he died, he was in and out of the hospital for a year — sometimes ...