ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ; Or, the Art of Embalming;

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1. 1ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ: OR, THE Art of Embalming; Wherein is shewn 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, c.
2. 2CONTENTS
3. 3To the Right Honourable THOMAS
4. 4THE PREFACE.
5. 5A List of such Noblemen and Gentlemen as have been pleas’d to Encourage this Work with Sculptures.
6. 6A List of such Noblemen and Gentlemen as have been pleas’d to Encourage this Work by Subscriptions.
7. 7Amico admodum colendo D. THOMÆ GREENHILL eximiam suam ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑΝ edenti χαίρειν καὶ εὐπραγεῖν.
8. 8Viro Admodùm Erudito Thomæ Greenhill, Chirurgo in ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑΝ, sive Artem Pollincturæ, ab illo editam.
9. 9TO HIS Ingenious Friend Mr. Thomas Greenhill.
10. 10To his Friend the Author.
11. 11ERRATA.
12. 12LETTER I.
13. 13LETTER II.
14. 14LETTER III.
15. 15A CATALOGUE OF Authors quoted in this Book.
16. 16THE TABLE
17. 17TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES