An article from 1897, some medical students finding in making a razor strop from human skin.
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An article from 1897, some medical students finding in making a razor strop from human skin.
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whoah! eBay?
This all sounds so Nazi-ish. Probably would work good, just a bit creepy for me.
So ... How long does it take for skin to grow back? :D
And some people say our news media has gotten worse. What paper did this come from?
Nyeh. I'll just stick to my 'roo hide. I reckon it'd be superior. Them fulla's just never knew about it at the time, too busy playing with their 'stiffs' I suppose :)
Mick
That article wasn't from April 1st 1897, was it Martin?
Loved it!
Regards,
Neil
Neil, That article does come up in various newspaper but no specific date other then 1897. There are other example as well like this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neil Miller
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Sounds like a loving wife to me always thinking of her husband passion for razors.........
Are you looking for new strop material?
I wasn't, but having read that you never know - maybe ma-in-law: she would be good for a few hundred, I reckon! Have to find a way to get the wrinkles out, though.... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin103
Regards,
Neil
So why did you ask about the specific date?Quote:
Originally Posted by Neil Miller
Dont let your swmbo look at that last post you may end up with two bum legs......
April 1st - april fools day - I thought it may have been something like Orson Wells got up to with his spoof broadcast.
Martin - I've already got one bum leg... SWMBO - don't make me laugh! I only let her think that I think thats her title...
Regards,
Neil
Well sounds perfectly reasonable to me. i've stropped on my arm before but a properly muscled female thigh is a wonderful strop just not always convenient which is why i have regular strops.
That's kinda creepy, but intriguing as well. Guess I will bypass donating my body to science and donate to the arts [of wet shaving science]! :deal:
Sadly, with current laws, it would be difficult to make a new human skin strop. Also, I would suggest that the back of a slightly portly woman would actually be the best.
Luckily pig leather is very similar to the many aspects of human and is in much greater abundance in the sense of commercial production.
Just some thoughts...
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Originally Posted by deighaingeal
True. My cousin suffered burns to 70% of his body and lived. He made the centerfold of Life magazne that year. The Doctor's wound up using pig skin to graft to his body. He didn't have enough of his own.
I remember it well. It was 1981 and he was in the same hospital as the Shah of Iran. There was security up the butt.
I didn't know Hannibal Lector used a straight razor! It makes sense as he does comes across as dapper and civilized - except for the cannibalism of course....:rofl2:
Must have been Mayo. How is he doing? I hope it is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by zib
I think the cost, assuming a strop could be commissioned, would be prohibitive!Quote:
Originally Posted by deighaingeal
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In advance, I put this link up a month or so ago on another large forum, on a similar thread: the whole friggin thread got deleted without even a polite heads up or explanation. The link is a genuine business which has nothing offensive on it, but some may find it distasteful. I thought it macabre but fascinating.
Martin, you're posting all this amazing info on a daily basis! Where the heck do you find this?? Do you sit at the library and scan through old papers or something? Whatever you're doing, I really enjoy reading it! This is on the creepier side but still very cool!
Wow! That's creepy...
Yet another example, from The Courier Lincoln Nebraska 1897,
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Oh, but barbers are the biggest bulls***ters ever... Next to salesmen! :)
That's freakishly insane.
Sounds like Dr. Mengele's Strop Shop-I'll just stick to my English bridle!
A little side work for Dr Kevorkian................
Macabre subject aside, I just love the richness of the written word in the original article..
I quote,
"It need scarcely be said that it was in the mind of a heartless medical student, steeled to insensibility of the sacredness of the corporeal body by constant contact...."
I dunno, maybe it's just me. But damn could people talk gooder way back then. Or what?
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Way gooder Mike no doubt! Even early 1800's is very interesting as well. Before that it gets very confusing.Quote:
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I was impressed with the language, too.
I've been to the museum of a nearby medical school several times. The quote seems pretty accurate based on some of the old photos I have seen and stories I have heard.
Yup, a wee bit to Elizabethan.
Though shalt and et to, ad nauseum. Lol
If you look at some of the knife makers as well as the straight razor makers they will use their palms to work the edge a little bit before feeling the edge, not to far off, but reusing a corpse's skin is not right.
Hence the case for Palm Stropping, or Leg Stropping......:)
Wonder where we could order one...looks like there's a market....blow Kanayama out of the market!!!:rofl2:
