THE
Undertakers’ Manual:
A TREATISE OF
USEFUL AND RELIABLE INFORMATION;
EMBRACING COMPLETE AND DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR
THE PRESERVATION OF BODIES.
ALSO, THE
MOST APPROVED EMBALMING METHODS;
WITH
HINTS ON THE PROFESSION OF UNDERTAKING.
BY AUGUSTE RENOUARD.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.
A. H. NIRDLINGER & CO., PUBLISHERS.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by
AUGUSTE RENOUARD,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| Introduction, | [iii] |
| To the Profession, | [vii] |
| Undertaking as a Profession, | [5] |
| Embalming, | [12] |
| The Laboratory, | [17] |
| Drugs and Chemicals, | [21] |
| Post Mortem Examinations, | [30] |
| Preservation of Bodies, | [36] |
| State of Body after Death, | [41] |
| Death from Poisoning, | [44] |
| Embalming Bodies, | [49] |
| The Arterial System, | [56] |
| Animal Matter, | [64] |
| Thrombosis and Embolism, | [70] |
| Process of Embalming, | [76] |
| Explanation of Terms, | [91] |
| Of Animal Chemistry—Section one, | [96] |
| ” ” Section two, | [115] |
| Gannal’s Process of Embalming, | [123] |
| Embalming by Maceration, | [128] |
| Laws of Health, | [130] |
| Embalming Process of Worth and Durand, | [142] |
| Miscellaneous Duties, | [146] |
| Rapid Decay of the Human Structure, | [157] |
| Practices which must be Abolished, | [169] |
| Management of an Undertaking Establishment, | [175] |
| Modifications in Embalming Bodies, | [182] |
| Chlorine: its Properties and Uses, | [186] |
| Instruments, | [191] |
| Gaseous Compounds, | [197] |
| General View of the Circulating Apparatus, | [200] |
| Glossary and Index, | [209] |