Cremation of the Dead: Its History and Bearings Upon Public Health
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
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The probable sanitary origin of Cremation--Not necessarily opposed to Religion--General reasons--Wisdom of adopting it in cases of epidemics--Sundry objections treated--The decorousness of the practice--Cremation desirable in the battlefield--In cases of murrain--In the destruction of condemned food, &c. 1-23