SIGNS OF COCAINE DISCOVERED IN 17TH CENTURY EUROPEAN BRAINS

Scientific study of preserved human brains from 17th century Milan, Italy, reveal they’ve tested positive for cocaine, centuries before it was previously believed to have come into popular use in Europe. The mummified brain matter was found in a burial site near a major hospital of the time. Researchers from the University of Milan were seeking to determine what the medical treatments of the day may have looked like. They ran toxicology tests on brain matter scraped from skulls. In two of the nine samples tested, the researchers found active components from Erythroxylum coca, the formal name for the plant from which cocaine is derived. Until now, it was widely thought that cocaine hadn’t been introduced to Europe until the 1800s. It probably was brought back to Europe from the explorers of South America.
* They could have saved a lot of time and just asked Keith Richards.
* This explains how Michelangelo was able to paint the Sistine Chapel in about a week.
* You can see how cocaine affected the explorers: Cortés takes a snort, “I’m gonna conquer Mexico!” Magellan takes a toot, “I’m gonna sail AROUND THE WORLD, BABY!!!”
* While Ponce de Leon was stomping around Florida, the real Fountain of Youth was being snorted off a tea tray back in Florence.
* Bodies in a burial site near a major hospital? So they had cocaine AND they had cocaine overdoses.