Cremation : the treatment of the body after death / by Sir Henry Thompson.

  • Stephen James Fitzjames, Sir, 1829-1894.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Cremation : the treatment of the body after death / by Sir Henry Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    87 any future time. All care to prevent such evil is obviously unnecessary, and ceases from the moment the process com- mences. The aim of Cremation is to prevent the process of putrefaction. On the other hand, Burial cannot be conducted without serious risks to the living, and great care is required to ren- der them inconsiderable with our present population. Costly cemeteries also are necessary with ample space for all possible demands upon it, and complete isolation from the vicinity of the living, to ensure, as far as possible, the absence of danger to them. It is a process designed essentially to prolong decay and putrefaction with all its attendant mischief; and the best that can be affirmed of it is, that in the course of many years it arrives, by a process which is antagonistic to the health of survivors, at results similar to, but less complete, than Cre- mation produces in an hour without injury to any. Henky Thompson.
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