Alan Holmes writes


Nelsons body, was, apparently pickled in a container of rum to preserve his
body so he could be bought home for burial, the sailors on board did not
know this and they taped the cask, forever after, rum was known as Nelsons
Blood!

Zoological specimens of all sorts used to be pickled in rum. My husband
told me that when he was first at the Museum some of the specimen jars
smelt exceedingly interesting ;-)
--
Kay