| Banished from the medical community
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| One brilliant German forensic pathologist
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| Johann Casper, his nascent methods on
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| The rate of rot made him a cunning medico-criminalist
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| The heady chemical stench of decay set him free
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| To discover putrefaction patterns others failed to see
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| Internal and external bacteria coalesced
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| And illustrated their wisdom in a semi-liquid mess
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| Professor of Forensic Pathology
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| Disgraced by Berlin doctors
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| Misunderstood forensic genius
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| Nineteenth century medicine
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| Rejected forensics and outlawed him
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| Amongst reeking gassy corpses
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| Casper hatched his dark science
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| Medical examiners now unite
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| Bring Casper’s Dictum to scientific light
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| «A week in air-two weeks in water
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| Two weeks in water-eight weeks in ground!»
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| Ballooning stiffs and liquescent corpses
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| Bursting models for Casper’s Dictum
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| Streptococci and Clostridium Welchii
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| Battle for postmortem bacterial supremacy
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| Autolytic conversion hosts and breeds
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| While putrefactive ooze squirts from the seams
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| Casper draped in a rotten viscera
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| Popping bleb and bullae sebum
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| Navigating the semi-fluid black mess
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| Charting decay for his seminal dictum
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| He noticed that corpses found submerged
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| Decay half as fast as those uninterred
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| Exhumed carcasses revealed to him
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| Four times less rot than those in the swim
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| He penned a text in 1850
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| Called Forensic Dissection (naturally)
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| His dictum was touted a medicolegal success
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| Even Rudolf Virchow was begrudgingly impressed
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| «A week in air-two weeks in water
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| Two weeks in water-eight weeks in ground!»
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| Ballooning stiffs and liquescent corpses
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| Bursting models for Casper’s Dictum
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| Sulphemethaemoglobin stains, putridity marbles
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| Blood is haemolysed
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| The unyielding hot logic of decay persists
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| Casper is immortalized
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| Before predation can strip the corpse clean
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| Casper graces the grisly crime scene
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| From waterlogged stiffs soughing their flesh
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| To exhumed partially skeletonized mulch
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| His ghastly rule of thumb is well known
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| From recently deceased to sun-bleached bone
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| Forensics and anatomy are hideously wed
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| Casper’s science of the dead |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Casper's Dictum , by - The County Medical Examiners. Song from the album Olidous Operettas, in the genre Метал