The Cremation of the Dead
by Hugo Erichsen
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About this eBook
- Author
- Erichsen, Hugo, 1860-1944
- Title
- The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint
- 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
- Cremation
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54176
- Release Date
- February 17, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE CREMATION OF THE DEAD CONSIDERED FROM AN ÆSTHETIC, SANITARY, RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL, MEDICO-LEGAL, AND ECONOMICAL STANDPOINT
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.INTRODUCTION.
- 5.CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF CREMATION.
- 6.CHAPTER II. THE EVILS OF BURIAL; THE SANITARY ASPECT OF INCINERATION.
- 7.CHAPTER III. CREMATION IN TIMES OF WAR.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. THE PROCESS OF MODERN CREMATION.
- 9.CHAPTER V. THE MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECT OF INCINERATION.—THE OBJECTIONS TO CREMATION.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. BURIAL ALIVE.—CREMATION FROM AN ÆSTHETIC AND RELIGIOUS POINT OF VIEW.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. ECONOMY OF CREMATING THE DEAD.—THE PRESENT STATE OF THE CREMATION QUESTION.
- 12.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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