Cremation of the Dead: Its History and Bearings Upon Public Health
CHAPTER II.
METHODS OF TREATING THE DEAD.
Exposure, or the absence of all burial--Consignment to the deep--Petrifaction--Envelopment in some solid material--Burial in the earth--Embalming preparations--Desiccation of the body--Cremation a widely-spread practice--Examples of quasi-cremation 24-40