TIL Philadelphia’s Historical Medical Library holds rare “anthropodermic” books—volumes bound in human skin, including three from Mary Lynch, whose story highlights the complex ethics and history behind medical collections. Yes, you read that right… Human skin.
https://histmed.collegeofphysicians.org/skin-she-lived-in/
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