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
Fragrant _Arabian Gums_, employ’d with _Art_,
From _Worms_ and _Dust_ preserve our meaner _Part_;
But _Labours_, such as yours, enliven _Fame_,
And with due _Elogies_ preserve a _Name_;
They’ll make the _Worthies_ of the _Age_ to come
Just _Homage_ pay, and venerate your _Tomb_.
_Greenhill_, proceed in _Learning’s Paths_ to tread,
And make your self _Immortal_ by the _Dead_;
Be this your _Praise_, with equal _Skill_ you strive
To _Embalm_ the _Dead_, and keep your _Friends_ alive.
_B. B._
ERRATA.
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r. _Santorellus_, p. 111. l. 31. for on _r._ in, p. 127. l. 29. for
_Marenuna_ r. _Maremnia_, p. 230. l. 12. for _Romans_ r. _Grecians_, p.
330. l. 26. for _Scardonius_ r. _Scardeonius_.
THE
Art of Embalming.
LETTER I.
_To_ Charles Bernard, _Esq; Sergeant-Surgeon to Her MAJESTY, Present
Master of the Surgeons Company, and one of the Surgeons of St._
Bartholomew_’s Hospital_.
SIR,
[Sidenote: _Surgery_ the Chief of _Art_]
If the Excellency of any _Art_ consist only in its Usefulness, or if it
derive its Preeminence from the Object, with which it converses, it
necessarily must follow, That the Profession of _Surgery_ is the Chief
of _Arts_, since it is employ’d about so noble a Subject as _Man_; and
therefore the _Greeks_ have thought fit to call such manual Operations
_The Art of Surgery_, which otherwise might as well have been apply’d to
any Mechanick Trade.
[Sidenote: Has two useful Branches;]
Thence it is _Anatomy_ and _Embalming_ are also equally to be esteem’d,
since they are not only Branches of this _Art_, but likewise absolutely
necessary to be known by its Professors; the one informing us of the
constituent Parts of the Body, and the other preserving it for ever in
our Memories.
[Sidenote: One Taught in our _Theatre_, and the other to be wish’d
there, yet _Embalming_ practis’d only by _Undertakers_.]
The first has been Learnedly Treated of by our own Countrymen, as well
as Foreigners, and is admirably perform’d even at this Day in our
_Anatomical Theatre_; whereas the last, I know not by what Fate, is
surreptitiously cut off from _Surgery_, and chiefly practis’d by
ignorant _Undertakers_.
[Sidenote: The Author vindicates the Right of it.]
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