History of Embalming, by J. N. Gannal, translated from the French by R. Harlan, M. D

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Author

Gannal, J.-N. (Jean-Nicolas), 1791-1852

Title

History of Embalming and of Preparations in Anatomy, Pathology, and Natural History; Including an Account of a New Process for Embalming

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Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Mummies

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48078

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48078

Release Date

January 25, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HISTORY OF EMBALMING,
2. 2.NOTE OF THE TRANSLATOR.
3. 3.ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.
4. 4.To Messrs. Members of the Academy of Sciences.
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.INTRODUCTION.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — OF EMBALMING IN GENERAL.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — NATURAL MUMMIES.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. — EMBALMING OF THE GUANCHES.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — EMBALMING AMONG THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — EMBALMING, FROM THE EGYPTIANS DOWN TO OUR DAY.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — ART OF EMBALMING IN OUR OWN DAYS, PREVIOUS TO MY DISCOVERIES.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — METHODS OF PREPARING AND PRESERVING SUBJECTS OF ANATOMY, PATHOLOGY, AND NATURAL HISTORY, PREVIOUS TO THE PROCESS OF GANNAL. — Section 1. — Generalities of the operations which precede preservation. — Sect. 2. — Means of Preservation. — Sect. 3. — Means of preservation applied to each tissue.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — GENERAL PROCESSES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF OBJECTS OF NORMAL ANATOMY, PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY, AND OF NATURAL HISTORY. — 1.— Preservation of bodies for dissection. — 2.— Preservation of subjects of normal anatomy, of pathological anatomy, and of natural history. — 3.— Embalming.
15. 15.APPENDIX.
16. 16.FOOTNOTES:

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