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IN Gen. Alexander Cunningham's “Ladak,” 1854, p. 237, we have probably the first mention of this substance among the mineral productions of that country. Gen. Cunningham says: “The common momiai of Indian medicine is, of course, a manufactured article; although not made, as generally asserted, of the melted fat of Abyssinian boys who have been roasted for the purpose.…The original momiai was only mummy, which at one time was held in much repute in Europe.”
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GODWIN-AUSTEN, H. “Momiai.”. Nature 106, 241 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106241c0
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