Serbia - 22-Year-Old Man’s Decapitated Head Preserved in a Jar Since 1931

[lackofreality]

Well he was a right looker.

[Vlayko]

As a Serbian, i can provide some of translation. The title reads:

"Unknown man with severed head found at railway tracks, near Topcider*
-Did he jump on them or someone else did it-?"

*neighbourhood located in Belgrade

[nightmeg]

“Pietri... 1930. Preservation and embalming of bodies by the penetration of anti-putrefying gases into the organism without the introduction of liquid into the blood vessels... The corpse is placed onto linen over a down mattress, which contains 5 kg of sawdust with 500 g of vegetable charcoal, KMnO4, camphor, and naphthalene, sprinkled with 2.5 l of a mixture of equal parts of thymol, formalin, alcohol, and benzoic acid. The coffin is then hermetically sealed. Not only is putrefaction prevented, but even if it has reached an advanced stage, after 3 days all signs of putrefaction will have disappeared and the body will recover its normal appearance.’’ Quoted from an article about this case/Professor. I needed to know what this method consisted of after reading this post and the above mentioned article… & i thought maybe someone else may want to know what that method is as well.