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Subject Terms Embalming -- Early works to 1800.

1. Nekrokēdeia, or, The art of embalming : wherein is shown 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, &. In three parts. The whole work adorn'd with variety of sculptures / by Thomas Greenhill, Surgeon.

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Creator:: Greenhill, Thomas, 1681-1740?
Date:: [1705]
Physical Description:: [10], viii, v, [9], 367, [13] p., [13] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts