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History of Embalming

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History of Embalming

Jean-Nicolas Gannal and Richard Harlan

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Jean-Nicolas Gannal made his name by finding new ways to preserve the human body, then wrote the story of how it had always been done. His history runs from natural mummies through the embalmers of antiquity to his own chemical methods. A definitive record from one of the field's great innovators. Trace preservation from the desert sands to the laboratory.

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30 chapters

  1. 1HISTORY OF EMBALMING,
  2. 2NOTE OF THE TRANSLATOR.
  3. 3ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  4. 4To Messrs. Members of the Academy of Sciences.
  5. 5PREFACE.
  6. 6INTRODUCTION.
  7. 7CHAPTER I.
  8. 8OF EMBALMING IN GENERAL.
  9. 9CHAPTER II.
  10. 10NATURAL MUMMIES.
  11. 11CHAPTER III.
  12. 12EMBALMING OF THE GUANCHES.
  13. 13CHAPTER IV.
  14. 14EMBALMING AMONG THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
  15. 15CHAPTER V.
  16. 16EMBALMING, FROM THE EGYPTIANS DOWN TO OUR DAY.
  17. 17CHAPTER VI.
  18. 18ART OF EMBALMING IN OUR OWN DAYS, PREVIOUS TO MY DISCOVERIES.

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