is it possible for blood/flesh to remain on a blade for over a century....

[fernando]

Originally Posted by M ELEY

I've been in medicine for close to 20 years, as a paramedic and a nurse. I've seen a lot of crime scenes and bladed weapons used in these. Blood could corrode a blade, but the "stain" as far as we know it, would never remain. Blood is made up of cellular tissue that clots, dries, and flakes off. If we were talking about cloth/textiles, it would be a different story.

How about remaining on paper ?
I have this 18th century small book, with an unknown but forcingly misterious history, in which some of the mistreated pages have some stains which i am fully convinced are blood stains; brownish shade, the more intense ones of a stiff texture, i would say. But this could well be my fantasy. It happens that this an original (or so) copy of a book written by a proeminent Portuguese Jew who was garroted by the Inquisition, and maybe that has unconsciently influenced me. But the stains are there and i don't see what else they would be .
Sorry to go a bit off topic
Fernando