Thomas Greenhill, a London surgeon, wrote this curious treatise to argue for embalming as an art worthy of his profession. He surveys burial and funeral customs of many peoples, then turns to Egypt: mummies, pyramids, subterranean vaults and lamps, the belief in the transmigration of souls, and the geography, Nile and inventions of the Egyptians.
A strange and learned curiosity of early eighteenth-century medicine and antiquarianism. Download the free EPUB.