[practising surgery on dead bodies] "For me, hands are hard. [...] Because you're holding this disconnected hand, and it's holding you back."
"To gibbet is to dip a corpse in tar and suspend it in a flat iron cage (the gibbet) in plain view of townsfolk while it rots and gets pecked apart by crows."
[after being shot] "Whether or not you collapse depends on your state of mind. Animals don't know what it means to be shot, and, accordingly, rarely exhibit the instant stop-and-drop. MacPherson points ou that deer shot through the heart often run off for forty or fifty yards before collapsing. 'The deer doesn't know anything about what's going on, so he just does his deer thing for ten seconds or so and then he can't do it anymore. An animal with a meaner disposition will use that ten seconds to come at you.'"
"A male heart, [...] is in fact slightly different from a female heart. A heart surgeon can tell one from the other by looking at the ECG, because the intervals are slightly different. When you put a femlae heart into a man, it will continue to beat like a female heart. And vice versa."
(China) Tai Bao capsules: made from abortus (fetuses) and placenta, and it is very good for the skin
mellified man: ... In Arabia there are men 70 to 80 years old who are willing to give their bodies to save others. The subject does not eat food, he only bathes and partakes of honey. After a month he only excretes honey (the urine and feces are entirely honey) and death follows. His fellow men place him in a stone coffin full of honey in which he macerates. The date is put upon the coffin giving the year and month. After a hundred years the seals are removed. A confection is formed which is used for the treatment of broken and wounded limbs. A small amount taken internally will immediatly cure the complaint.
[China] "Children, most often daughters-in-law, were obliged to demonstrate filial piety to ailing parents, most often mothers-in-law, by hacking off a piece of themselves and preparing it as a restorative elixer. The practise began in earnest during the Sung Dynasty (960-1126) and continued through the Ming Dynasty, and up to the early 1900s
