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PROF. MELDOLA'S notice from a truly scientific standpoint of Dr. Vignon's book, entitled “The Shroud of Christ,” is not less interesting than valuable, but I think two difficulties which hardly fell within the scope of his article may also be raised. One struck me at once in examining the facsimile of the photographic negative plate of the Holy Shroud (facing p. 17). The body had been lying, of course, face upwards. I presume that if a corpse were thus placed on a stone slab, within a very few hours of death, the nates would be slightly flattened by pressure, but their normal roundness—as in a nude standing figure—caught my eye at once when examining the plate.
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BONNEY, T. The Holy Shroud . Nature 67, 296 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067296b0
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