Featured on PDR in the collection Nekrokēdeia or The Art of Embalming (1705)
Written and published by Thomas Greenhill, an 18th-century surgeon, Nekrokēdeia is a collection of all things related to death and burial, focusing in particular on the history and art of embalming. Greenhill believed that embalming was a subject just as important as anatomy or surgery and advocated for its practice, discussing it from a medical as well as a religious perspective. The book is divided into three letters, all addressed to a specific doctor: the first to Charles Bernard, Serjeant Surgeon to Queen Anne, the second to John Lawson, the former president of the Royal College of Physicians and the third to Hans Sloane, secretary to the Royal Society (whose vast collection was to become the founding collection of the British Museum). As is perhaps…
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Date
1705
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Nekrokēdeia: or, The art of embalming wherein is shown the right 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
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Medical Heritage Library / Internet Archive / Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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