Roumania : the border land of the Christian and the Turk : comprising adventures of travel in eastern Europe and western Asia / by James O. Noyes.

  • Noyes, James Oscar, 1829-1872.
Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Roumania : the border land of the Christian and the Turk : comprising adventures of travel in eastern Europe and western Asia / by James O. Noyes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    and Hungarians display far more taste and less vanity than onrseiYes. They do not all at once discover a person's good qualities as soon as lie is dead, and place an epitaph, over his head that would flatter his vanity if he were living. A simple word or sentence, as, Asleep, ]^ot forgotten, He will rise, tells the sad tale more effectively, and lodges a sweeter thought in the memory of the passer-by, than the most elabo- rate verse or far-fetched eulogy. By way of episode I may say that, although the Catholics of Germany and Hungary plant more flowers over the graves of the dead than we are accustomed to in America, their estimate of the human dust and hor- ror of the final dissolution, are by no means so great and so lively as our own. Post-mortem examinations, which are so dreaded in America, especially by the Catholic population, are there rather desired than other- wise. They wish to make sure that they are not bury- ing a living friend, and the thought that men turn in their graves is to them far more awful than the sight of human blood and muscles. The law directs that burials shall not take place till after the lapse of a cer- tain number of hours. Persons watching with the dead usually sit in the same room with the corpse; when that is not the case they place a bell-cord in its hand so as to be summoned by any movement that may occur. Should the traveller tarrying ii Vienna wish to be-