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Nekrokedeia: or, The art of embalming : wherein is shown 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
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