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Cocaine found in mummified brains reveal that New World drug came to Italy 200 years earlier than thought

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Researchers found traces of cocaine in mummified brain tissue of two mummies.

The mummies were buried in a crypt at a "pioneering hospital" in Milan in the 1600s .

Cocaine is extracted from the leaves of the coca plant Erythroxylum coca, a bush native to South America .

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