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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.

Title
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. Also some new matter propos'd concerning a better method of embalming than hath hitherto been discover'd. And a pharmacopœia Galeno-chymica, anatomia sicca sive incruenta, &. In three parts. The whole work adorn'd with variety of sculptures. By Thomas Greenhill ...
Author
Greenhill, Thomas, 1681-1740?
Publication
London, Printed for the author [1705]

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Description
2 p. ℓ., viii, v, [8], 367, [12] p. fold. front., 13 pl. (part fold.) fold. map.; 25 x 20 cm.
Alternative Title
Art of embalming
Subject
  • Embalming
  • Burial
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies
  • Mummies
Call Number
SPX (Greenhill. Art of embalming)
LCCN
08008273
OCLC
8485867
Author
Greenhill, Thomas, 1681-1740?
Title
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. Also some new matter propos'd concerning a better method of embalming than hath hitherto been discover'd. And a pharmacopœia Galeno-chymica, anatomia sicca sive incruenta, &. In three parts. The whole work adorn'd with variety of sculptures. By Thomas Greenhill ...
Imprint
London, Printed for the author [1705]
Research Call Number
SPX (Greenhill. Art of embalming)
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