Creepiest Thing Ever: L’Inconnue de la Seine

[Yithian]

The original CPR training mannequin was indeed modeled on L'Inconnue de la Seine.

That Michael Jackson connection is brilliant--deserves to be on the 'Something New Everyday' Thread.

 

[EnolaGaia]

... That Michael Jackson connection is brilliant--deserves to be on the 'Something New Everyday' Thread.

That's where I was intending to post the recent article, but then I discovered we already had a thread dedicated to L'Inconnue de la Seine ...

 

[Kondoru]

But in those days death masks were common, and so hardly creepy?

The CPR story is creepy...

 

[EnolaGaia]

This newly published article in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) provides further details and references for the history of L’Inconnue de la Seine and Resusci Annie.

The face of CPR
BMJ 2020; 371
doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3899 (Published 10 December 2020)

https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3899

 

[escargot]

You mean like the skin had stretched/was loose? Or it had split and come up and there were rotting innards everywhere? :shock:

A woman who i work with told me a similar sounding story from when she was a nurse, said she went to change the dressings on this guys leg that had gangrene and was up for amputation, she was quite new and nearly yakked with the smell, then when she got the bandages off, the starts pulling this wadding out of a wound on the leg and it keeps coming, like his leg was hollow with just th eskin and bone left :shock: :cry:

Yup, gangrene smells like dogshit.