Talk:Mellified Man

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W...T...F? Toscaesque 21:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Verificiation?

Has anyone actually checked the book reference? It looks like this wiki page only appeared after the linked site was mentioned on BoingBoing. Can we really create a factual article based solely on trusting one website? Ben Morris 23:07, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

The book actually does mention it, I asked someone on an IRC channel the day the book came out who confirmed that he had seen it in the book, but the book itself does not reference it. He was unable to get the book to check (it was borrowed). I suppose someone could go check their local library for it, but I am pretty sure mine does not have the book. --TIB [[User_talk:The_Inedible_Bulk|(talk)]] 06:00, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I have read this book, and it does indeed mention the Mellified Man. Fmalcangi 02:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

It is mentioned on page 221-222, and is taken from a translation of the Chinese Materia Medica, compiled in 1597 by Li Shih-Chen. This work is covered in Wikipedia as Compendium of Materia Medica. As far as I can tell, the mellified man is not mentioned in other sources so may be a Chinese medical legend. Seashunt 19:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Roach even says that Li specifically points out that he's not sure whether this story is true, which (again per Roach) does not speak well for the story's credibility when compared to Li's many other difficult-to-believe remedies which he does not similarly caveat. PubliusFL 19:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC)