chapter 7+8 summarizier

In chapter 7 which named Holy Cadavers deals with confirming the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin by the crucifixion experiments. An experiment, “pounding the nails into the hands and feet of an elfin”, conducted by a surgeon Barbet concluded that there are two strains running from the same sources but different ways, and at different angels. The first comes obliquely upwards and inwards whereas the second one flows slender and meandering. Explaining why blood followed two different parts, he pointed out that Jesus lifted up him and then drooped by his hands which were hanging. Barbet proceeded to experiment a lone arm crucifixion instead of the whole body. He expressed that the nail which forced through the space between two metacarpal heads took its own direction. Theory that addressed by Barbed seemed contrary to Zungie, a medical examiner. Barbet presented ideas that the wound on the back of the hand on the Shroud of Turin came out on the pinkie side while it appears on the thumb side. Zungie discovered that the crucifixion did not influence our breathing rhythms, nor did the blood flow different parts, or rather, wound would have been smeared.
Basically, this chapter exposed a new function of cadavers, not only for common practice such as the effects of bullets on human (chapter 6), but also for proof of holy perceptions.
Chapter 8 named How to Know If You’re Dead is about determination of whether or not it is the truly death, live burial, and the search for the soul . We took a look at a beating cadaver which was defined as a declared brain dead, but tissues and organs were still alive. After the next four hour, kidneys, heart, and livers would give up. Despite the brain death beating cadavers looked rejuvenated inside. We could feel the heat beat of the liver flowing to the aorta, saw the organ plumping and being slippery. , Searching for the location of the soul was a controversy between different beliefs. Egyptians, Pythagonies, and Astute considered heart was the seat for the soul, while Babylonian believed in the liver, Mesopotamian thought of both the heart and liver (intellectual for the heart, emotion for liver). Overall, it is concluded that the soul diffused throughout the body, which does not have a resting place.