Prof. E. H. Crane’s Manual of Instructions to Undertakers

About this eBook

Author

Crane, Elliott H., 1840-1917

Title

Prof. E. H. Crane's manual of instructions to undertakers : With full and complete instructions in the best methods for preserving the dead, including minute directions for arterial injection

Original Publication

Kalamazoo, MI: Crane & Allen, 1888.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Undertakers and undertaking

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 73434

Release Date

April 20, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PROF. E. H. CRANE’S Manual of Instructions TO UNDERTAKERS, WITH Full and Complete Instructions in the Best Methods for Preserving the Dead, Including Minute Directions for Arterial Injection, With Plates Illustrating the Location of the Principal Arteries .
2. 2.REVISED EDITION.
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS. — CHAPTER I. Ancient Embalming.
4. 4.CHAPTER II. Directions for the Care of Ordinary Cases.
5. 5.CHAPTER III. Directions to Observe in a More Obstinate Case.
6. 6.CHAPTER IV. Directions to Observe in a still More Obstinate and Difficult Case.
7. 7.CHAPTER V. Cases Indicating Absence of Immediate Results.
8. 8.CHAPTER VI. Prevention of Contagious or Infectious Diseases.
9. 9.CHAPTER VII. Sale of the Preservative to Unprofessional Persons.
10. 10.CHAPTER VIII. Embalming by Arterial Injection.
11. 11.CHAPTER IX. Directions for Locating and Injecting the Carotid Artery.
12. 12.CHAPTER X. Directions for Locating and Injecting the Brachial Artery.
13. 13.CHAPTER XI. Directions for Locating and Injecting the Femoral Artery.
14. 14.CHAPTER XII. Precautions to observe for the Safety of the Operator in Embalming.
15. 15.CHAPTER XIII. Chemical Affinities.
16. 16.CHAPTER XIV. Advantages to the Undertaker of Scientific Embalming.
17. 17.CHAPTER XV. Absorption by the Capillaries.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. Embalming Instruments.
19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. Caution to be used in Storing and Keeping the Preservative.
20. 20.APPENDIX.
21. 21.Commendatory Letters and Extracts.
22. 22.NOTE.
23. 23.TO OUR CUSTOMERS.
24. 24.Index to Letters.

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