The Art of Embalming
by Thomas Greenhill
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- Author
- Greenhill, Thomas, 1681-1740?
- Title
- ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ; Or, the Art of Embalming; Wherein Is Shewn the Right of Burial, and Funeral Ceremonies, Especially That of Preserving Bodies After the Egyptian Method. Together With an Account of the Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Subterranean Vaults and Lamps, and Their Opinion of the Metempsychosis, the Cause of Their Embalming. As Also a Geographical Description of Egypt, the Rise and Course of the Nile, the Temper, Constitution and Physic of the Inhabitants, Their Inventions, Arts, Sciences, Stupendous Works and Sepulchres, and Other Curious Observations Any Ways Relating to the Physiology and Knowledge of This Art.
- Credits
- Produced by 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
- Mummies -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 57829
- Release Date
- September 1, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ : OR, THE Art of Embalming; Wherein is shewn The Right of Burial, THE FUNERAL CEREMONIES, And the several Ways of Preserving Dead Bodies IN Most Nations of the WORLD. With an Account of The particular Opinions, Experiments and Inventions of modern Physicians, Surgeons, Chymists and Anatomists. ALSO Some new Matter propos’d concerning a better Method of Embalming than hath hitherto been discover’d. AND A Pharmacopœia Galeno-Chymica, Anatomia sicca sive incruenta , &c.
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.To the Right Honourable THOMAS
- 4.THE PREFACE.
- 5.A List of such Noblemen and Gentlemen as have been pleas’d to Encourage this Work with Sculptures.
- 6.A List of such Noblemen and Gentlemen as have been pleas’d to Encourage this Work by Subscriptions.
- 7.Amico admodum colendo D. THOMÆ GREENHILL eximiam suam ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑΝ edenti χαίρειν καὶ εὐπραγεῖν .
- 8.Viro Admodùm Erudito Thomæ Greenhill , Chirurgo in ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑΝ , sive Artem Pollincturæ , ab illo editam.
- 9.TO HIS Ingenious Friend Mr. Thomas Greenhill.
- 10.To his Friend the Author.
- 11.ERRATA.
- 12.LETTER I.
- 13.LETTER II.
- 14.LETTER III.
- 15.A CATALOGUE OF Authors quoted in this Book.
- 16.THE TABLE
- 17.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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