The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint / by Hugo Erichsen ; with an introductory note by T. Spencer Wells.

  • Hugo Erichsen
Date:
1887
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Credit: The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint / by Hugo Erichsen ; with an introductory note by T. Spencer Wells. 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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    65 feet. The drawing of the first floor shows an audi- torium of octagon form. Back of the two rear niches are dressing-rooms for clergymen. Two handsome altars on which to hold religious services will front from these niches. Two rooms in the lower end of the building, ^f\EIV]ATOF^UJVJ LANcy\S7EF\ CREMATORIUM AT LANCASTER, PA. (Exterior View.) on either side of the approach, are reserved for toilet rooms, one for ladies, and the other for gentlemen. In the center of the upper end of the auditorium is placed a catafalque, resting on an elevator. After a body has been properly prepared, it will be placed on this cata- falque. When the religious services are concluded, the