Mary Roach Quote
Didn’t bother them that the corpses would arrive at their doors, to quote Ruth Richardson, compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust,…trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams… So similar in their treatment were the dead to ordinary items of commerce that every now and then boxes would be mixed up in transit. James Moores Ball, author of The Sack-’Em-Up Men, tells the tale of the flummoxed anatomist who opened a crate delivered to his lab expecting a cadaver but found instead a very fine ham, a large cheese, a basket of eggs, and a huge ball of yarn. One can only imagine the surprise and very special disappointment of the party expecting very fine ham, cheese, eggs, or a huge ball of yarn, who found instead a well-packed but quite dead Englishman.
Didn’t bother them that the corpses would arrive at their doors, to quote Ruth Richardson, compressed into boxes, packed in sawdust,…trussed up in sacks, roped up like hams… So similar in their treatment were the dead to ordinary items of commerce that every now and then boxes would be mixed up in transit. James Moores Ball, author of The Sack-’Em-Up Men, tells the tale of the flummoxed anatomist who opened a crate delivered to his lab expecting a cadaver but found instead a very fine ham, a large cheese, a basket of eggs, and a huge ball of yarn. One can only imagine the surprise and very special disappointment of the party expecting very fine ham, cheese, eggs, or a huge ball of yarn, who found instead a well-packed but quite dead Englishman.
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