title: [Mysteries of the Bourges mummy, an paleopathologic survey].
abstract: Discovered in 1908 in a lead coffin conserved in a stone sarcophagus, the mummy of the "fin Renard" (Bourges, France), was immediately identified as that of a gallo-roman child. The circumstances of his death as the extraordinary conservation of this body were the object of many conclusions related to contemporeanous medico-historical knowledge and limited by partial investigation potentiality. The application of the most actual paleopathological methods and techniques permitted a more precise observation of this unique but surprising French specimen. However, after many radiographic, scannographic, fibroscopic and microscopic studies, the little mummy conserves many of its mysteries...
authors.forename: Pierre L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Thillaud
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D009106:Mummies / Q000266:history*; D010164:Paleopathology / Q000266:history*