Female Monkey return to Mexico

Norway in Oslo today delivered to Mexican authorities the remains of Juliana Pastrana, who gained fame in the nineteenth century to be displayed on amusement rides like the "monkey woman" due to genetic deformation. A brief private ceremony in the chapel of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo culminating formalized the transfer within five days, when the remains of the Mexican indigenous are buried in their home country. It will be the last stage of a vital odyssey that lasted many years after his death in 1860 in Moscow and seeks to "restore their human dignity", as highlighted in the ceremony the Ambassador of Mexico, Martha Barcenas, and researcher Laura Anderson, representing the state of Sinaloa, which was original. Pastrana (1824-1860) suffered from hypertrichosis, known as werewolf syndrome, a disease that makes hair grow thicker lot throughout the body, aggravated by a prominent jaw and other physical deformities that marked their existence. Orphaned at an early age, was exhibited in circuses from young Mexico and the United States, where he met the businessman Theodore Lent, who later became her husband. With it moved across Europe in a show in which it was presented as "monkey woman", "the ugliest woman in the world" or "indescribable", but also in demonstrating their artistic talents in dancing and singing several languages. It also attracted the attention of renowned scientists, and even the English naturalist Charles Darwin referred in one of his books to the case of the woman who inspired a century after the Italian film "La donna Scimmia" (1963), Marco Ferreri. Pastrana died at age 36 while giving birth to her son, who also died soon after. But death did not return her calm and dignity: her husband sold the bodies to the University of Moscow, where they were embalmed, but then recovered and continued to exhibit touring across the continent. The remains ended in 1921 with the employer Norway Haakon Lund, owner of the largest amusement park in the country and showing them periodically continued for several decades until the reviews the show ended with them in a warehouse. Thus were stolen in 1976 and recovered by Norwegian police, but only the body of Juliana was able to be transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Oslo. Years later, he moved to a better location in the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences. At the request of Mexican authorities, returned to Norway to study the case and the National Committee for Drug Evaluation and Research in Human Remains decided a few months ago that the remains were returned to their home country for burial. Today's ceremony, which was also attended by the Vice President and Dean of Medicine, University of Oslo, will not lead to the expected relationship between Pastrana and Norway. The National Institute of Genomic Medicine of Mexico (INMEGEN) has offered the University of Oslo collaborate on a project, which also involved a research associate at the University of Oxford, which aims to develop the genome sequence and identify Pastrana causes of their illness. By then, his remains, whose transfer has been paid by the state of Sinaloa-rest and under the earth's Historic Cemetery of Sinaloa de Leyva, near where he was born in 1834, closing a pilgrimage than a century and a half.

• 2013-02-07T23:02:42+00:00
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