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Finally, a week or so after it should have started, shark week has come calling. I took some Excedrin and now I'm in the pleasant place where I feel no pain and am kind of floating a little. Fortunately, I don't have to look when I type, which is nice. *♥ touch-typing*
Anyway, this week's death isn't a historic mystery, but I still think it's pretty damn awesome.
So, I could only find Wikipedia as the source for this, but it's super interesting. Henry Hall was a lighthouse keeper in 1755. There was a fire, and apparently he looked up while he was inside the burning lighthouse, and melted lead dripped down his throat and all on his left side. He survived for a couple of days, and actually managed to tell his doctor, "Hey, I'm dying because melted lead went down my throat!"
His doctor (Doctor Spry) did an autopsy after the man died and found a bunch of terrible burned holes in Hall's organs from the melted lead, but the rest of the medical community refused to believe that a man could survive for any length of time with those injuries.
In fact, he was met with such skepticism by the Royal Society that he did experiments with live dogs and chickens, pouring hot lead down their throats to prove that there wouldn't be an immediate death, even after such a horrible trauma. It was apparently England's first live animal experiment.
Anyway, this week's death isn't a historic mystery, but I still think it's pretty damn awesome.
So, I could only find Wikipedia as the source for this, but it's super interesting. Henry Hall was a lighthouse keeper in 1755. There was a fire, and apparently he looked up while he was inside the burning lighthouse, and melted lead dripped down his throat and all on his left side. He survived for a couple of days, and actually managed to tell his doctor, "Hey, I'm dying because melted lead went down my throat!"
His doctor (Doctor Spry) did an autopsy after the man died and found a bunch of terrible burned holes in Hall's organs from the melted lead, but the rest of the medical community refused to believe that a man could survive for any length of time with those injuries.
In fact, he was met with such skepticism by the Royal Society that he did experiments with live dogs and chickens, pouring hot lead down their throats to prove that there wouldn't be an immediate death, even after such a horrible trauma. It was apparently England's first live animal experiment.