Re: Medical and non-medical uses of placenta

From: Mats Bergstrom (matsb@cor.sos.sll.se)
Sat Oct 5 11:14:27 1996


On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, stephanie wrote:

We used to sell 'our' placentas to the pharmaceutical industry for many years, for pocket change (that went to cakes for the coffee breaks and such), but there's obviously no demand any more. I think they made gamma- globulin from them.

Then there are the stories of modern 'pagans', where the mother, and in a mix-up of political correctness the father, eat the afterbirth. I've heard that they fry it first. Supposedly it tastes 'just like liver'.

--
Mats Bergstrom, MD
Ob Gyn
South Hospital
Sweden




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