![]() There was no settling of the blood to indicate the position in which the body had been left, presumably because it had rolled over on the current. The water had interfered with all the signals he had learned to look for. He was better acquainted than he wished to be with the dead, but this one was difficult. When he had completed the description, Ruso scratched one ear and gazed down at the pale figure laid out on the table. "If somebody turns up looking for her in a month's time," he explained, "we'll be able to tell them who we buried." He recorded Strawberry birthmark approximately half an inch long on inside of upper right thigh, eight inches above the knee, and sketched the shape. Ruso continued working his way down the body, making notes as he went. "I told them we'd got a body and you'd send the details over later, sir." Someone would need to know her very well indeed to give a positive identification from that. Three teeth missing, but not in places that were obvious. That too, although it might not be very helpful if no one had ever seen her before without a wig. Finally he settled on approximately 18-25 years. He spent some time frowning over that one. Except that in this case much of the description was speculation as well.įemale, aged. Ruso, who had started work before it was light, stifled a yawn. Without taking his eyes off the body, the man shook his head. "But you have attended a postmortem before?" "The assistant's assistant, sir." The man was staring at the corpse. "What's the usual procedure here for unidentified bodies?" "So," said Ruso, flipping the tablet open. The assistant wrinkled his nose as he approached with the record tablet and the measuring stick he had been sent to fetch. ![]() ISBN: 978-1-59691-427-8 Chapter One Someone had washed the mud off the body, but as Gaius Petreius Ruso unwrapped the sheet, there was still a distinct smell of river water. MEDICUS A Novel of the Roman Empire By RUTH DOWNIE BLOOMSBURY USA Copyright © 2006 Ruth Downie All right reserved. ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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