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The Daily Dispatch: June 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Strange Felo de Se. (search)
ts, brought on by losses of property. Mr. Baron had once possessed great wealth, but had been reduced to a comparatively slender income. The most remarkable feature of the case, perhaps, is a will left by deceased, bequeathing his body to Dr. Weisse, with the request that the skeleton should be nicely set and placed somewhere in his office. The document runs as follows: "I hereby bequeath my body to my talented, and some day or other illustrious, Dr. F. Duncan Weisse, of No. 30 West 15th Dr. F. Duncan Weisse, of No. 30 West 15th street, New York, requesting him to set up my skeleton nicely, and to place it some where in his office. The best means to effect it, probably, are the following: To take the flesh off the bones with a knife as much as possible; to cut out a small piece of the skull with a the pan and pull the brain out; to pierce holes in the shalt of every long bone with a small ginalet, so as to let the marrow out, which will greatly improve the whiteness; to let it macerate in water a long while, and let it