Arno vertelde in de les dat een mens zeep kan worden! Zoals bij de “soap woman”!
Dat klinkt allemaal interessant dus ik heb het even opgezocht!
Hier is het resultaat van mijn zoekopdracht, lekker vaag en een beetje vreemd, maar bovenal heel speciaal:
The Soap Woman
Perhaps the oddest attraction is the body of the “Soap Woman.” This is the body of a woman who died of Yellow Fever sometime in the 19th century and was buried in soil with certain chemical properties . . . that turned her into soap! An accompanying display shows an x-ray cross-section and tells her story. A “Soap Man,” buried alongside the Soap Woman, is occasionally displayed at the Smithsonian Institute.
After every visit, our notebooks are brimming over. Here are some of the exhibits:
- Skeletons of a giant and a midget
- Broken bones
- Pott’s Disease Skeletons
- Skull Collections, including the Muniz collection of trephinated (holes cut in them) Peruvian skulls
- “Brain Of A Murderer” – John Wilson hanged in Norristown, PA
- “Brains of epileptics”
- Longitudinal slices of the head, showing brain
- Brain of animals arranged from tiny frog to man, often with eyes attached
- Large collection of baby deformities.
- Hearing apparatti of mammals in butterfly collection-like cases.
- Photo of Lyndon Johnson lifting his shirt to show off his gall bladder operation scar
- Wax Renderings of Eye Disease Problems
- Iron Lung in the polio exhibit
