Monday, October 19, 2009

Carl Tanzler and a particular dead body harboring tuberculosis: A love story


Carl Tanzler was a doctor back in the dark ages before antibiotics rendered consumption (you know, the once fashionable, chronic wasting illness that gave us many a great Victorian novel) obsolete. He fell in love with a beautiful Cuban women who came to him because she was sick with the illness. She died, but he dug up her body and kept her in a state of quasi-decay for seven years, lovingly restoring parts until she was pretty much a paper-mache RealDoll. Don't click that link if you don't want to see an comely, anatomically correct sex doll. In other words, click that link. Nobody's watching.

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