An edition of Nekrokēdeia (1705)

Nekrokēdeia

or, The art of embalming, wherein is shewn the right [sic] 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 pharmacopoeia Galeno-chymica, anatomia sicca sive incruenta, &c. In three parts ...

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Thomas Greenhill
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An edition of Nekrokēdeia (1705)

Nekrokēdeia

or, The art of embalming, wherein is shewn the right [sic] 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 pharmacopoeia Galeno-chymica, anatomia sicca sive incruenta, &c. In three parts ...

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English
Pages
367

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Subjects
Burial, Mummies, Embalming, Funeral rites and ceremonies
Places
Egypt

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Nekrokēdeia: or, The art of embalming, wherein is shewn the right [sic] 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 pharmacopoeia Galeno-chymica, anatomia sicca sive incruenta, &c. In three parts ...
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Nekrokēdeia: or, The art of embalming
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Part I (all that was published) has subtitle: 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 ...

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The art of embalming

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[4], viii, v, [8], 367, [12] p.
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367

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OL19141651M

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