The library at Harvard University removed a number of human skin that was used as a cover. The book "Fate of the Soul" written in 1880 was awarded to a doctor who decided that "a story about the human soul should have a human cover" The owner of the copy in the library, a French doctor named Dr.
Ludovic Boulan wrapped the cover in the skin of a woman who died in a hospital where he worked. The identity of the woman from whom the skin was taken is unknown, but Harvard speculates that Bolan gained access to her body.