Posted on 03/24/2020 5:19:23 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A gangster named Henri “Le Tigre” Olivier was guillotined in Lille on this date in 1925.
According to eyebrow-raising (but widely circulated) reports, once the Tiger was reduced to a Cadaver, he joined the august line of medicalized corpses for, as noted in the papers of the executioner Anatole Deibler, “In the cemetery, a professor from the Faculty of Lille removed the thyroid gland from him, for transplant to a young girl suffering from paralysis, the operation succeeded perfectly, the child was saved.”
Nutty story, and even given nuttiness it conflates very different scenarios.
How does a thyroid stop paralysis?
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