How to make a mummy - Len Bloch
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Date: 2020-08-22
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John
Plastination is the only good way of preserving a corpse with life-like characteristics. Mummification is crude by comparison, discolouring the body, making it shrink, reducing it to little more than skin and bones and often distorting the face to the point where we cannot get a good idea of what that person looked like in life.
The only corpse I know of that has been preserved for any length of time with reasonable success using modern embalming techniques is two year old Rosalie Lombardo in Italy but she was embalmed using a unique mixture of embalming fluids that were never used elsewhere so I don't know whether her remarkable state of preservation is due to this special mix or is simply due to the cool, dry conditions of the catacombs where she now rests.
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Plastination is the only good way of preserving a corpse with life-like characteristics. Mummification is crude by comparison, discolouring the body, making it shrink, reducing it to little more than skin and bones and often distorting the face to the point where we cannot get a good idea of what that person looked like in life.
The only corpse I know of that has been preserved for any length of time with reasonable success using modern embalming techniques is two year old Rosalie Lombardo in Italy but she was embalmed using a unique mixture of embalming fluids that were never used elsewhere so I don't know whether her remarkable state of preservation is due to this special mix or is simply due to the cool, dry conditions of the catacombs where she now rests.
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blotchi
Never i understand how marvelous these ancient egyptian mummies are, until i learned medicine & most specifically forensics
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Never i understand how marvelous these ancient egyptian mummies are, until i learned medicine & most specifically forensics
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