Born into a humble family of mid-seventeenth century in Palermo under the name of Giuseppe Balsamo soon began to worry about death, so his research into cults, alchemy, potions sects and earned him a wealth of knowledge on the subject. After changing the identity and pose as the Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, his elixirs and potions "life extension" made him famous among the nobility, even going to medicate the King of France and Royal Court or the Benjamin Franklin himself. However, his most morbid would be its unique system to achieve immortality. After seeing the larvae to turn into butterflies enclosed in a cocoon and that fetuses were produced within the cocoon maternal ", as it was known at the time, thought he could convince people that this was the key to natural regeneration. His system was based on confining the person in a bag made with sheets hanging to the ceiling so that it remained "regenerated" for a couple months in the cocoon. During his tenure as the person was single larva feeding on a chicken broth and live among their droppings, which fell by an appropriate hole in the fabric. In theory, the "treatment" at first resulted in the loss of hair and teeth, which then reborn young and beautiful like a butterfly.
The excuse was that for the birth of the "new party" had to first get rid of old ones. Of course this was pure nonsense, and hair and teeth were lost due to scurvy and infection, never to be recovered. Incredibly 
an unknown number of volunteers offered to prove the "treatment" must have suffered severe attacks of biting lice, scurvy and infection. The unlucky ones who survived ended up in a pathetic state. 
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