Harvard Has a Book Bound in Human Skin...Your Move, Yale

Friday, June 6, 2014 - 10:01 in Health & Medicine

In the mid-1800s, the book was apparently swathed in the skin from the unclaimed body of a female mental patient who had died of a stroke. Harvard scientists only yesterday revealed they had confirmed the binding came from a human being.

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