Chapter 10 Section 10

There is no doubt that these five limbs belong to the same person. Responding to a final question from defense attorney Edward Sawyer, Dr Winslow Lewis said: "I don't know how long it takes to burn a human head to ashes. Approximate time when the rest of the five limbs were incinerated." However, the testimony of the next witness somewhat made up for this regret: I am Woodray Strong, practicing medicine here since 1820. I have always had an interest in anatomy and have spent a great deal of time professionally studying it.For example, in a certain winter, as long as I could get a corpse, I would do an autopsy day and night, from 8:00 am to 12:00 midnight every day, which lasted for about three months.It can be said that I am obsessed with dissecting the human body.

I'm also fairly experienced in cremating dead bodies or removing human muscle by burning them.Once, the police special forces asked me to dismember the body of a pirate.It was very hot at the time, so I planned to remove the skin and other soft tissues first, leaving only the skeleton.The guy was muscular and strong.That night I mounted the body in a large old-fashioned stove, and a fire was kindled with wood.All night I stood before the hearth, adding more wood, but by morning the muscles had not burned away.I was always worried that the local police would come after me.As a result, around 11:00 in the morning, they really came and asked me what was going on with the smell all over the street.I managed to get the job done before lunch, but I've since learned that burning corpses is no joke.

For example, first of all, you have to have the right fuel.Firewood is better than coal.Light firewood is better than heavy firewood.Second, you have to keep stoking the fire, so you have to stay there and not leave.You also have to be careful not to let those falling joints and skins put the fire out.The most annoying thing is that the smell of burning people always arouses suspicion.I've gotten neighbors and the police on more than one occasion for this. I went to Harvard Medical School on Tuesday after they found those severed limbs.I went there purely out of personal interest and inclination, and had no idea that they would ask me to testify in court...

Of course, I'm also interested in the living body, especially women. The comedic effect of the testimony lightened the mood in the courtroom.Twice even Professor John West in the "prisoner's compartment" couldn't help laughing. More experts stepped onto the witness stand one after another—— Frederick S. Ainsworth, model teacher in the anatomy laboratory at Harvard Medical School.I was in charge of supervising the students' anatomy experiments and preparing human specimens for lectures and dissections for Professor Oliver Holmes.After each class, I will instruct the medical school handyman, Ivren Littlefield, how to suture and preserve the samples.

Yes, many years ago, that spot belonged to Dr. Samuel Peckman Jr., brother of the late Dr. Peckman. All human samples in the medical school have to go through my hands before being distributed to professors and students for use.I have a habit of keeping detailed records of incoming and outgoing samples.After Professor West was arrested, I checked the inventory in the laboratory, and there were quite a few items. I had also examined the stumps and was convinced they were not medical school human specimens for dissection.Because all of our samples are injected with pharmaceuticals to prevent them from spoiling.But the wreckage found in Ifjen showed no trace of injection.

And the way those limbs were dismembered, it didn't look like they were going to be dissected at all.In my opinion, the people who cut those limbs had no knowledge of anatomy.He may have seen someone else dissect a cadaver, but I doubt he ever did it himself. My name is Charles T. Jackson and I have been a professional chemist for the past 25 years. ………… I took a few skin samples from those severed limbs, which tested strongly alkaline with litmus paper.I took the sample back to the lab for chemical analysis and it came out to be Potassium Hydroxide. Potassium hydroxide can soften the skin of the human body. If it is supplemented with heating, such as boiling, it can quickly dissolve soft tissues.

If the human skin is cut into small pieces and boiled with potassium hydroxide, all the skin will be melted in 2 to 3 hours, but this requires the dosage of potassium hydroxide to be half of the body weight.I imagined that a very large pot would be needed to cook the whole human body at once.I saw it in Professor West's laboratory, and the largest container available there was a tinplate boiler, which certainly wasn't enough to cook a person. I also noticed in my professor's lab that there were lots of spots on the walls, especially on the walls on either side of the stairs.That's what's left after the liquid dries.Dr. Geoff Wyman took some samples in my presence.

I also saw a pair of trousers and a pair of slippers with blood stains on them.Dr. Wyman also took samples. (Prosecutor's lawyer presents a knife to the witness) I saw this knife at Professor West's, in the laboratory of the Old Medical College on Mason Road.I have known Professor West for 25 years. I have taken his classes as a student in medical school, and since then I have developed a habit of visiting him frequently.When I first saw the knife in medical school after the professor's arrest, it looked very clean, as if it had just been laundered. My name is Wyman and my name is Jeff. I am Heser Professor of Anatomy Emeritus at Harvard Medical School. I have taught anatomy for 8 years now.

My first visit to medical school to examine a human stump was on Sunday, December 2nd.They handed me some bones they found in the smelting furnace.I later cataloged and described all these bones... When the chest was turned over, I was amazed at the thickness of the hair on the back of the limbs.I've never seen anyone with so much hair.From the shoulder blade down, on both sides of the spine, it covers half of the back. I tested what Dr. Jackson thought might be blood on the stair wall, and it turned out to be just a stain of tobacco juice.