Harvard discovers a few of its library books are bound in human fleshAs it turns out, the practice of using human skin to bind books was actually pretty popular during the
17th century. It's referred to as Anthropodermic bibliopegy and proved pretty common when it came to
anatomical textbooks. Medical professionals would often use the flesh of cadavers they'd dissected
during their research. Waste not, want not, I suppose.
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