Category: History - Other
OF EMBALMING IN GENERAL, p. 21--Tendency of bodies to decomposition--Variable, according to countries, species, and individuals--Fact reported by Ammien Marcellin--Consequences deducible from it, for the natives of hot countries--for temperate and cold countries--Facts observe...
After long and repeated experiments, MM. the commissioners, have been unanimous upon the utility of the processes of preservation which I propose, and in particular my process f...
16. CHAPTER VII.Among the investigations belonging to the domain of medicine, normal anatomy and pathological anatomy occupy the first rank; they constitute the necessary basis of exact study:...
13. CHAPTER IV.Since the ignorance we are in, relative to the language of this great nation, places it out of our power to know, of ourselves, the causes and processes for the preservation of...
14. CHAPTER V.Here facts are almost entirely wanting, and the history of the art we are studying, can only be followed in the recitals of historians, to control whose veracity we have no long...
15. CHAPTER VI.Organic chemistry has made great progress since the commencement of the present century, and the facts upon which it is constituted have been sufficiently known and accurately s...
8. CHAPTER VIII.GANNAL’S PROCESS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NORMAL ANATOMY, PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY, AND NATURAL HISTORY, p. 197.--Difference between the processes of preservation offered to anatomis...
9. CHAPTER I.The elevation of atmospheric temperature in certain determined hygrometric limits, and the action of oxygen, are those circumstances which lead necessarily to this decomposition...
11. chapter iii, §. 2. “But these bodies, dried and preserved in the sandsof Lybia, should not receive the name of _mummy_, because a mummy is, properly speaking, a body prepared after a special process.” Such ideas have caused much empyricism, and ha...
12. CHAPTER III.The Guanches, with the Egyptians, are the only nation among whom embalming had become national, and there exists in the process and mode of preservation of both such striking an...
10. CHAPTER II.Whilst man agitates and torments himself in employing all his activity to produce a feeble result, nature, all-powerful, by means of simple causes, produces wonderful effects. M...
7. CHAPTER VII.MEANS FOR THE PREPARATION AND PRESERVATION OF PARTS OF NORMAL ANATOMY, OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY, AND OF NATURAL HISTORY, ANTERIOR TO THE GANNAL PROCESS, p. 141.--Importance of su...
4. CHAPTER IV.EMBALMING AMONG THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, p. 54.--What comprises the labour of embalming--Disposition--Thermometrical and hygrometrical state of the caverns in which the bodies wer...
5. CHAPTER V.OF EMBALMING, FROM THE TIME OF THE EGYPTIANS DOWN TO OUR DAYS, p. 89.--Honours of embalming, conferred by other nations on distinguished men only--Doubts on the efficacy of this...
2. CHAPTER II.NATURAL MUMMIES, p. 35.--Power of nature--Importance of seeking her ways in the study of her phenomena; to follow her lessons--Division of natural mummies--Mummies due to the pa...
6. CHAPTER VI.ART OF EMBALMING IN OUR DAY, PREVIOUS TO MY DISCOVERIES, p. 118.--Opinion of M. Pelletan upon the imperfect state of this art--Dispute among the physicians, surgeons, and apothe...
1. CHAPTER I.OF EMBALMING IN GENERAL, p. 21--Tendency of bodies to decomposition--Variable, according to countries, species, and individuals--Fact reported by Ammien Marcellin--Consequences...
3. CHAPTER III.EMBALMING OF THE GUANCHES, p. 48.--Resemblance between the embalmings of the Guanches, and those of the Egyptians--Consequences deducible from this resemblance--Description of t...