ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ: 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.

In Three PARTS.

The whole Work adorn’d with variety of Sculptures.

By Thomas Greenhill, Surgeon.

LONDON: Printed for the Author.

ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ:

OR, THE

Art of Embalming;

Wherein is shewn

The Right of Burial,

AND

FUNERAL CEREMONIES,

Especially that of

Preserving Bodies

After the EGYPTIAN Method.

TOGETHER WITH

An Account of the Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Subterranean Vaults and Lamps, and their Opinion of the Metempsychosis, the Cause of their Embalming.

AS ALSO

A Geographical Description of Egypt, the Rise and Course of the Nile, the Temper, Constitution and Physic of the Inhabitants, their Inventions, Arts, Sciences, Stupendous Works and Sepulchres, and other curious Observations any ways relating to the Physiology and Knowledge of this Art.

PART I.

Illustrated with a Map and Fourteen Sculptures.

By Thomas Greenhill, Surgeon.

LONDON: Printed for the Author, M DCC V.