He has separated the head from the spine, instead of cutting through the spine lower down, as most persons would have done: he removed the arms with the entire shoulder-girdle, instead of simply cutting them off at the shoulder-joints.

Even in the thighs the same peculiarity appears; for in neither case was the knee-cap found with the thigh-bone, although it seems to have been searched for.

Now the obvious way to divide the leg is to cut through the patellar ligament, leaving the knee-cap attached to the thigh.

But in this case, the knee-cap appears to have been left attached to the shank.

Can you explain why this person should have adopted this unusual and rather inconvenient method?
Can you suggest a motive for this procedure, or can you think of any circumstances which might lead a person to adopt this method by preference ?" "It seems as if he wished, for some reason, to divide the body into definite anatomical regions." Thorndyke chuckled.