Loading your reading…

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

ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ:
                                OR, THE
                           Art of Embalming;
                            Wherein is shewn
                          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_, &c.


                            In Three PARTS.


          _The whole Work adorn’d with variety of Sculptures._


                   _By_ THOMAS GREENHILL, _Surgeon_.


                   _LONDON_: Printed for the Author.




                              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, Stupendous Works and Sepulchres,
    and other curious Observations any ways relating to the Physiology
    and Knowledge of this _Art_.

                                PART I.

           _Illustrated with a Map and Fourteen Sculptures._

                   _By_ THOMAS GREENHILL, _Surgeon_.

               _LONDON_: Printed for the Author, M DCC V.




                                CONTENTS

No reviews yet