Embalming the dead, it must be recalled, was a purely religious observance.
At first thought it might seem that the practice of embalming would have led to the custom of dissecting human bodies, and that the Egyptians, as a result of this, would have excelled in the knowledge of anatomy.
There is no mention here of any embalming performed by Joseph or Nicodemus, nor are any particulars given as to the ownership of the sepulchre, or the reasons for its selection.
There are, however, indications that the process of embalming first arose among the pre-Menic rulers of Nekhen, in the neighbourhood of El-Kab.
But if the conception of a double, unsubstantial and yet materialised, underlay the belief in the Osiris, the practice of embalming was equally responsible for it.
The very act of embalmingimplied the possibility of its union with Osiris.
The second, or x race, however, evidently introduced the custom of embalming as well as that of burial at full length and the use of coffins.
There is a third mode of embalming appropriated to the poor.
Even the custom of embalming the dead, so striking a peculiarity, was more or less subject to fluctuating fashions.
But the fact is, I fell into catalepsy, and it was considered by my best friends that I was either dead or should be; they accordingly embalmed me at once--I presume you are aware of the chief principle of the embalming process?
The Ethiopians used similar means of embalming to preserve the dead, and other less successful means were used by nations of antiquity.
The art ofembalming was probably never lost in Europe, and De Bils, Ruysch, Swammerdam, and Clauderus boast of great success in it.
The art of preserving the body after death by embalming was invented by the Egyptians, whose prepared bodies are known by the name of mummies.
Hence the necessity of embalming the body as a means to insure its eternal existence.
The origin of the process of embalming has been variously accounted for.
The mode ofembalming depended on the rank and position of the deceased.
The third kind of embalming is only adapted for the poor.
Some time after the analytical report was made to the coroner, it was learned that an embalming fluid, highly arsenical in character, had been used upon the body by the undertaker at the time of preparation for burial.
In order to gather further light upon the possibility of cadaveric imbibition of embalming fluid through the unbroken skin, test was made for zinc in the heart and stomach, and distinct traces of the metal were found in each instance.
In all about two quarts of embalming fluid were so used.
Bearing in mind the relative quantities of the two metals in the embalming fluid, it will be seen that the arsenic found in the 62 grms.
The defence made an unsuccessful effort to show that the crystals of the tri-oxide originated from the spontaneous evaporation of the embalming fluid.
No injection of this embalming fluid was practised, but cloths wrung out in the fluid were laid upon the face and chest, and were kept constantly wet therewith during a period of many hours.
The inflammable substances used in embalming became new fuel, and the flames roared.
In the embalming it had lost nothing of its beautiful shape; even the wrist seemed to maintain its pliability as the gentle curve lay on the cushion.
The preservation of the body must therefore have been an object of solicitude at the earliest times, but the art of embalming did not attain perfection until the Theban period.
The texts also bear witness to the ideas with which the complicated processes of embalming were undertaken.
In order that all the expense of embalming should not be thrown away, the mummy had to be so placed that it could not be reached by the highest inundations of the river.
Eulogy and song have aided history in embalming his memory with the Character of the Troops engaged in the Battle on Breed's Hill.
I found him embalming a corpse in the State bedroom one night--' 'You what?
You weren't aware that I included the art of embalmingamong my accomplishments.
I found himembalming a corpse in the State bedroom,' repeated Racksole in his quietest tones.
It was commonly employed in Egypt with other dyes and spices for embalming mummies.
The incense here alluded to was a very valuable drug in Egypt on account of its use in embalming mummies.
Sheep dip, rat poison, insecticides, embalming fluid, pigments and dyes are prepared with arsenic compounds.
The religion of the people was connected with the practice of embalming the bodies of the dead.
The cleaning and embalming of the bodies takes place in the corners of the church, on either side of the pulpit.
We have had just all we could do cleaning and embalming the bodies.
She passed the little railroad station where the undertakers were at work embalming the dead, and walked slowly until she got opposite the station.
Great had been the art of the Egyptians in the embalming of their deceased, a practice which was later lost to humanity of the ensuing mechanical age, never to be rediscovered.
But even the embalming of the Egyptians--so Professor Jameson had argued--would be futile in the face of millions of years, the dissolution of the corpses being just as eventual as immediate cremation following death.
Sugar will fill the system with an embalming element, and thus the tissues are saturated with an element which acts on the system like ashes thrown on a fire.
But if these women knew that Jesus was to rise again at the end of three days, why were they so careful in embalming his body?
He was pleased not with the ointment, but with the love and devotion of his fervent servant, which he suffered her to satisfy by that action, which he received as performed for the embalming of his body, his death being then at hand.
From the body were taken the brain, heart, and viscera in order to make embalming possible.
Forty days were fulfilled for the embalming of Jacob.
