Erin Allman-Updike

So like day one, black mud, day two, boiled cow dung, and so on and so forth.

Animal products feature prominently in many of the recipes from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and India, not just milk.

Like for instance, bull's fat boiled with papyrus is one treatment.

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The Hippocratic texts recommend that for a burn, you should, quote, take melted fat of old pigs, mix it with resin and bitumen, spread it out over a cloth, warm it at the fire, and apply it as a plaster, end quote.

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Dung was also a popular choice, specifically hare's dung and she-goat dung.

She-goat.

She-goat.

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She-goat.

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She-goat, she-goat.

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Eggs here and there were mentioned, you know, hard boiled yolks mixed with rose oil as an example.

There were also many plant-based remedies as well.

So in ancient China, tea leaf extract was applied to burns.

In ancient India, you might get an ointment made from butter mixed with the bark of a fig tree.

To quote from a 1977 paper by Thompson on the history of burn treatment, quote, Okay.