Is it okay to put the body in the wine to prevent embalming? Why did the ancients rarely do that?
In this article, I will talk to you about this topic.
Putting corpses in wine to protect themselves is something like "Nelson's Blood."
Britain and France in 1805 were riveted to fight. Napoleon, who was on land, knew that he had no advantage in naval warfare, especially the combined fleet led by Vice Admiral Wirnav, although superior in size to Britain, but much less effective. In fact, Vernav himself had no confidence in the Navy, and he himself had no level, and he was bent on resigning and returning home.
The British side is actually not happy, because of Napoleon's blockade in Europe, British goods can not be transported at all, a long time will definitely lead to the British financial crisis, the national strength is greatly reduced. In this case, the British Navy realized that napoleon's sea power must be destroyed and proved to the world its supremacy at sea.
On 21 October 1805, the British Navy, led by Nelson, finally captured a combined French and Spanish fleet off Trafalgar.
Originally, Vernav's combined Franco-Spanish fleet had a slight superiority in strength, but he was still worried that he would not be able to defeat the British navy. So at the critical moment when the two sides are constantly approaching and about to go to war,"
decisive
"Ordered the fleet to make a 180-degree turn to facilitate the adverse retreat to the port of Cadiz. As a result, Vilnafe's fleet was in disarray.
On the British side, Nelson saw the opportunity and immediately led the fleet to rush in in two columns, and the two sides began to fight.
As a result, Nelson, who was directing the operation on the deck, was unfortunately hit by the sniper of the other side and was seriously injured. After a fierce battle, the British navy finally won a great victory, but Nelson closed his eyes forever.
The Battle of Trafalgar was the largest naval battle of the 19th century and allowed Britain to defeat French sea power and gain maritime supremacy for the next century. Nelson was undoubtedly a hero of the British Navy, and his body had to be escorted home.
At that time, the British Navy did not prepare coffins, let alone experience in the operation of embalming of the remains, and in desperation, they could only soak Nelson's body in rum and transport it back to Britain.
Rum was the standard in the British Navy at the time, a cheap spirit that did play an antiseptic role.
According to rumors, after Nelson's body was transported back to England, it was found that there was not a drop of rum in the barrel. After the inspection, it was found that someone had drilled a small hole in the barrel, and the sailors secretly drank it in order to gain Nelson's heroism...
Although this is only a legend, true or false is unknown, the British Navy did turn rum into "
Nelson's Blood
"That's it.
It can be seen that it is still possible to use wine for body embalming. But we also need to understand that this is an emergency after all, and it cannot happen very often.
In fact, in ancient times, the use of alcohol for corpse embalming had no effect. That is to say, it is not difficult to understand that the ancients rarely put corpses in wine to prevent embalming. Rum is embalming because it has a very high degree (
So the British Navy required sailors to mix water before they could drink it
）。 However, the alcohol content of ancient wine is generally low, and it cannot meet the requirements of embalming at all.
More critically, in most parts of the world, there is no custom of preserving the remains for a long time. Since this is the case, there is no need to talk about the problem of body embalming.
Two last words, humans have long liked to put wine in it."
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Bubble people
", I always feel a little weird.