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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: spontaneous combustion
Message-ID: <776@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 18:21:42 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  1 18:21:42 1986
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Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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>      Weren't some of the "spontaneous combustion" cases ones involving
> internal "burning" with no external damage?  If so, have you seen the crazy
> medicines folks used during the Victorian era?  Crotan oil, for instance, 
> which is extremely castic was a common purgative.  When your pharmacy is
> largely compiled of poisons it's easy to mess up.

	The cases on record all involve mass destruction of most of the
decendent's body through incineration, leaving just ash and bone.

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