By Benjamin Lynch Harvard University confirmed it removed the binding from a book in one of its libraries because it was made of human skin. The 19th century book “Des Destinées de L’âme” – meaning “Destinies of the Soul” – was bound by physician Dr. Ludovic Bouland without the permission of a patient in the hospital where he worked. Dr. Bouland took the skin after the patient died. Harvard has had possession of the book in its Houghton Library since 1934, the year after Bouland’s death. The university, known to be one of the world’s most prestigious, said the library conducted a review and fo…