Autopsy of a Saint

[Warpy]

6. I wonder if the gallstones killed her

They weren't the usual variety of cholesterol gallstones, those are yellow. Don't ask how I know, I might tell you.

It's odd that there was any sort of examination of her innards after death, the human body was supposed to be inviolate and buried completely intact, something that would have been infinitely more necessary for an Abbess.

They didn't mention the tricuspid valve affirming the trinity, I suppose they were aware that was standard issue, which means that dissection was a lot more prevalent than has been assumed and was probably one of the many bodies of unofficial knowledge that was lost half a century later in the Black Death, although Guy de Chauliac insists on the need for knowledge gained by dissection in his book on surgery, written after the plague had passed.