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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, StupGreenhill, Thomas

Philosophy

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, Stup

Greenhill, Thomas

Burial -- Early works to 1800; Embalming -- Early works to 1800; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Early works to 1800; Mummies -- Early works to 1800

_Quodcunq; ex Terris volitat medicamen_ Eois,
        _Et quas commistas_ India _præbet Opes;
      Quotquot_ Persiacis _glomerantur Aromata in Arvis,
        Atq;_ Sabæorum _Balsama prompta Solo;
      Quascunq; auratas_ Arabum _Campestria Merces,
        Pharmaca vel quotquot_ Turcica Mecca, _locant;
      Fervidus exustas peragrans Mercator Arenas,
        Quæcunq; asportat Magmata odorifera;
      Quæq;_ Palæstinis _stillant Opobalsama Plantis,
        Et quæ_ Nilois _consita sparsa Jugis;
      Thaumata_ Memphiticis _quæcunq; videntur in Antris,
        Et quæ Pyramidum claustra stupenda tenent;
      Tradidit arcano quodcunq; Volumine_ Mystes
        Ter Magnus, _vel quæ dogmata_ Aristoteles;
      _Cuncta hæc dignatur nobis_ Greenhillius _ardens
        Ecce salutifera suppeditare Manu.
      Esse quid hoc dicam, novus hic divinus_ Apollo
        _Quod subito Arctois Alpibus exoritur!
      Cedite_, Romani _Medicastri, cedite_ Graii,
        _Abdicet atq; Artes_ [1]Anglica Turba _novas.
      Nullus adest Squalor, Fætorve, aut dira Mephitis,
        Sed redolent succis Atria thuriferis;
      Mirifico incisæ stipantur Pulvere Venæ,
        Atq; Artus laxos Unguina mista fovent.
      Volvas, Mysta sagax, Vita Ceromate functa
        Corpora, & intingas_ Bammate _perpetuo:
      Præclara socios pergas sanare Medela,
        Atq; Orci rabidis Faucibus eripere;
      Donec succinea sero sis clausus in Arca,
        Dumq; Animus propere tendat ad Astra Viam_.

                                              Joan. Kersey, _Sen._

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 Viro Admodùm Erudito _Thomæ Greenhill_, Chirurgo in ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑΝ, sive
                  Artem _Pollincturæ_, ab illo editam.


         _Miramur_ Phariis _nutantia Pondera Saxis,
           Et minùs Hospitibus firma Sepulchra suis.
         Quod dare debuerant, Ævo Monumenta carerent,
           Sæcula ni functis sumeret ipse Lapis.
         Arguit elapsam, quâ_ Mumia _duruit, Artem,
           Orbatumq; dolet Matre superstes Opus.
         At tua Niliaci referent Arcana Laboris
           Scripta, nec ignotis jam fluet Amnis Aquis._
         Arabiæ Fœlicis _Opes, Miracula_ Memphis,
           Isiacos _Mores, Justa, Sepulchra, Faces,
         Quicquid_ Arabs _novit_, Pharii _docuere Sophistæ
           Indicibus Chartis pandet amica Manus_.
         Pollinctura _tibi reduces debebit Honores,
           Arteq;_ Apollineâ _Structa perennis erit.
         Corpora quâ nobis servas, tibi nomen in Ævum
           Servabis; quâ nos Fama manebit, ope.
         Quid dissolvendum restat, Mors irrita? Servat
           Corpora_ Greenhillus _salva, Animasq; DEUS_.

                                                         G. R.




                                 TO HIS
                _Ingenious Friend Mr._ Thomas Greenhill.

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