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4 posted on 08/12/2012 12:56:26 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Tyrannies demand immense sacrifices of their people to produce trifles.-Marquis de Custine)

To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

7 posted on 08/12/2012 1:04:14 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")

To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

‘Mortsafe’, or iron coffin case, 19th century.

View showing the mortsafe in the Science and Art of Medicine gallery in the Science Museum. The top of the mortsafe is the original 19th century iron object and the base is a copy. The original base is in storage. Mortsafes were sometimes used to protect coffins and stop people from desecrating graves and stealing the corpses to sell to anatomists. This crime became more frequent in the early 19th century when the increased interest in studying medicine resulted in the short supply of legally available bodies for dissection. The coffin would be removed from the safe once the body had decomposed beyond the point of usefulness for dissection.

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10287925&wwwflag=2&imagepos=7&screenwidth=1343

8 posted on 08/12/2012 1:09:13 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")

To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Wonder what that cat on the left in the first pic is doing?

11 posted on 08/12/2012 2:10:57 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik (In a tornado, even turkeys can fly.)

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