History has witnessed many legendary people who are remembered for decades by the world. There have also been such people who were so special that their biological body parts were preserved as a mark of respect for their contribution to the globe. In this article, we list a few people who’s organs have been preserved safely after their death by the human race.
1. Galileo’s fingers, teeth and vertebra are on display in a museum.
Galileo Galilei’s thumb and middle finger have been kept in display at the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy. It was done so when his dead body was being transferred from one tomb to another. Not only that, the museum has also housed his teeth and a vertebra.
2. Albert Einstein’s eyes and brain.
The great Albert Einstein died in 1955 and soon after his death pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey conducted his autopsy. During that, he removed and dissected his brans into 240 pieces. Beyond that, he housed the pieces have been stored in in a plastic-like material called collodion. Through a series of events, several of these brain blocks are housed at Washington’s National Museum of Health and Medicine, while the rest are at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia.
3. Pancho Villa’s trigger finger is on sale at a pawn shop.
The most promising rebel general of the Mexican Revolution was assassinated in 1923. He was shot by a group of riflemen and a mummified appendage claiming to be his finger is on sale at Dave’s Pawn Shop in El Paso, Texas.
4. Thomas Edison’s last breath is preserved in a test tube.
Thomas Edison’s son, Charles Edison, sat by his father’s side during the time of his last breaths before death. While being close to him, Charles had held onto a test tube next to his father’s mouth to catch his final breath. The test tube from the has been safely preseved at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
5. Napolean Bonaparte’s penis
The greatest French emperor Napolean Bonaparte died somewhere around 1821. After death, his body underwent an autopsy carried out by an English surgeon who autopsied Napoleon apparently removed his penis, after which it was seemingly passed down from generation to generation. The penis surfaced around from an the 20th, to the private collection of an American urologist, who paid $2900 for it in 1969 and kept it under his bed in a suitcase until his death in 2007. In 2016, the sample was auctioned and Napoleon’s penis was one among the many to have got sold.
