Anatomy and Embalming: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to this SubjectNunnamaker, Albert John
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Anatomy and Embalming: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to this Subject
Nunnamaker, Albert John
Embalming
_Treatment._—Place the body on the cooling board and undo all the
stitches made by the physician in sewing up the body after the
post-mortem. Remove all the organs, that have been previously removed
by the physician, and place same in a bucket or other container. Clean
out thoroughly all the blood from the cranial, thoracic and abdominal
cavities. Now try to tie off the arteries in the cranial cavity which
will be the vertebrals or the basilar and the common carotids. If these
have been cut too short to be tied, then mix up some plaster of paris
and cover them securely so that there will be no leakage. While the
plaster of paris is setting raise the common iliac artery, which you
will find at the back of the abdomen just over the ilio-psoas muscle,
represented by a line drawn from the body of the fourth dorsal vertebra
to the center of Poupart's ligament. Inject the right and left common
iliac arteries downward which will take care of the lower extremities.
Here the only artery you need to tie off is the deep epigastric artery
which is a branch of the external iliac just a short distance above
Poupart's ligament and which takes a course upward over the abdominal
muscles finally to anastomose with the deep mammary artery.
By the time you have injected the lower extremities, the plaster of
paris will be set. Work from the inside of the thoracic cavity, and
tie off the innominate, left common carotid and the left subclavian
arteries, and when this has been accomplished inject each one
separately. Here the only leakage you will have will be through the
mammary or intercostal arteries which you will tie off as the leakage
occurs.
Now turn the body over and hypodermic the back, then turn body over
again. Fill the cranial cavity with sawdust, place the skull cap in
position and sew up the scalp. Wash all the organs and place them back
in the cavities in their proper positions or as nearly so as possible
and as you do so fill in with hardening compound. Sew up the abdomen
and wash the body with a disinfecting solution and apply outward
cosmetics.
CHAPTER XXV.
TREATMENT OF MISCELLANEOUS CASES.
=Alcoholism.=—_Definition._—An intoxication, acute or chronic, due to
the injection of a sufficient quantity of alcohol to produce muscular
inco-ordination, mental disturbances, and finally narcosis.
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