Adipocere was first described by Sir Thomas Browne in his discourse Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658): In a Hydropicall body ten years buried in a Church-yard, we met with a fat concretion, where the nitre of the Earth, and the salt and lixivious liquor of the body, had coagulated large lumps of fat, into the consistence of the hardest castile-soap: wherof part remaineth with us.
A adipocera foi descrita por primeira vez por Sir Thomas Browne no seu discurso Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658): Nun corpo hidrópico enterrado hai dez anos nun adro de igrexa, atopamos unha concreción de graxa, onde o nitro da terra e o sal e licores lixiviados do corpo, coagularan grandes masas de graxa, ata ter a consistencia do máis duro dos xabóns de Castela: do que parte permaneceu con nós.