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.

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_Illustrated with a Map and Fourteen Sculptures._

_By_ THOMAS GREENHILL, _Surgeon_.

_LONDON_: Printed for the Author, M DCC V.

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To the Right Honourable THOMAS Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery THE PREFACE. A List of such Noblemen and Gentlemen as have been pleas’d to Encourage this Work with Sculptures. A List of such Noblemen and Gentlemen as have been pleas’d to Encourage this Work by Subscriptions. Amico admodum colendo D. THOMÆ GREENHILL eximiam suam ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑΝ edenti χαίρειν καὶ εὐπραγεῖν. Viro Admodùm Erudito Thomæ Greenhill, Chirurgo in ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑΝ, sive Artem Pollincturæ, ab illo editam. TO HIS Ingenious Friend Mr. Thomas Greenhill. To his Friend the Author. ERRATA.