How Skeletons are Made.

La Monde de la Science describes a factory which is said to be flourishing at St. Denis, France. Within its walls skeletons are “made” in the following manner: The largest room in the building is filled with enormous kettles, in which the bones of the corpses are boiled till the flesh is separated from them. The skulls are prepared separately and in the most careful manner. One way of preparing children and young people is to fill the hollow where the brains were situated with peas and then let the latter swell in water, which causes the most delicately jointed bones to separate without being injured. After all the bones have been carefully washed they are bleached either by choral or by exposure to the sun, and are joined in another department of the factory and made flexible by means of brass wires. Most of the corpses whose bones are utilized are said to be brought from hospitals, prisons and dissecting-rooms.

source: Reno Evening Gazette
location: Reno, Nevada