{"id":876,"date":"2012-04-03T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/03\/on-the-history-of-books-bound-in-human-flesh\/"},"modified":"2012-04-03T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T23:16:00","slug":"on-the-history-of-books-bound-in-human-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/03\/on-the-history-of-books-bound-in-human-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"On the history of books bound in human flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the history of books bound in human flesh<\/a>:
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From “the chirurgeon’s apprentice<\/a>,” a fascinating and squick-inducing blog\/website devoted to chronicling “the horrors of pre-anaesthetic surgery,” an entry about the history of books bound in tanned human skin<\/a>. Snip from details about the image shown above:<\/p>\n

And then there were books which claimed to be made from the human flesh but were, in fact, not. One example comes from the Wellcome Collection in London [left]. It is a curious little notebook which professes to be \u2018made of Tanned skin of the Negro whose Execution caused the War of Independence\u2019. Presumably, this refers to Crispus Attucks, a dockworker of Wampanoag who was the first person killed by the British during the Boston Massacre. Immediately following his death, Attucks was held up as an American martyr. As a consequence of its alleged origins, this notebook has become a symbol of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More<\/a>. And if you enjoy tweets about 17th-century surgery, you’ll want to follow Lindsey Fitzharris<\/a>, the medical historian behind the “Chirurgeon\u2019s Apprentice” website. (via Vaughan Bell<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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