Dr. D. Pietra Santa—La Crémation des Morts en France et à l'Étranger.
Dr. Mantegazza—'Cremazione dei Cadaveri,' in the Nuova Antologia. Firenze, September 1874.
Rev. H. R. Haweis—Ashes to Ashes. A Cremation Prelude. London, 1874.
[INDEX.]
Apparatus, cost of best modern, [113]
— inoffensiveness of the modern, [106], [112], [114]
Ashes, depositing in churches, [16], [124]
— — in urns, [119]
— interment of, [16], [36], [123]
— time necessary for reduction to, [115]
— weight of, [115]
Burials, crowded, [41], [67]
— dangers of, [6], [18], [53]
— depths of, [46]
— in caves, [5], [29]
— in vaults, [47], [59]
— near habitations, [44], [54]
Burial-grounds, inundations of, [48], [63], [65]
— — draining of, [48]
— — old, [50]
Burial laws, [41]
Cattle, burial of, [63]
Cemeteries, [43], [47]
— conveyance to distant, [80]
Churchyards, closing of, [50], [80]
Churchyard vapours, [54], [58], [60]
Coffins, [52]
Columbaria, [16], [75], [124]
Common graves during epidemics, [6]
Cost of modern system of cremation, [114]
— — old systems, [91], [100]
Cremation and burial practised together, [5], [9], [11], [70]
— — medical science, [23]
— amongst ancient peoples, [4], [11], [19], [35]
— during epidemics, [6]
— half-and-half schemes of, [40], [64], [76]
— in America, [83]
— in Austria, [79]
— in battlefields, [18]
— in Belgium, [78]
— in England, [85]
— in France, [75]
— in Germany, [82]
— in India, [11], [35], [36], [91]
— in Italy, [68]
— in modern times, [19], [36], [38], [82], [84]
— in North America, [37], [101]
— in Siam, [98]
— in Switzerland, [73]
— judicious promotion of, [125]
— late experiments on, [82], [90], [97], [102], [106], [113], [115]
— modern approved processes, [109], [117]
— not opposed to the doctrine of the resurrection, [8], [12], [74]
— objections to old systems of, [90], [97]
— of condemned food, &c., [22]
— of diseased human dead, [68]
Cremation of diseased, cattle, [21]
— of offensive matters, [22]
— societies, [73], [81], [82], [83], [86]
— time occupied by, [115]
Dangers of burial, [6], [18], [53]
— — opening up old burial-grounds, [6]
Dead, burial in caves, [29]
— — in solid materials, [27]
— — in the earth, [11], [30]
— drying up of the, [29], [34]
— embalming of the, [31], [36], [37], [76], [100], [116]
— exposure of the, [24]
— petrifaction of the, [27]
Diseases caused by churchyards, &c., [56]
Family graves, [45]
Family receptacles for ashes, [16], [99]
Graveyards, draining of, [48]
— old, [50]
Interment of the ashes, [16], [36], [123]
Injudicious promoters of cremation, [2]
Judicious promotion of cremation, [125]
Laws relating to burial, [41]
Mortuary chapel for cremation, [105]-118
Objections to cremation, [5], [13], [15]
Parkes, Dr., quoted, [53], [59]
Poetry upon cremation, [14]
Poisoning of the living, [56]
— — water supplies, [51]
Sanitary origin of cremation, [8]
Siemens' cremation apparatus, [105], [109]
Sir Henry Thompson on cremation, [23], [77], [85], [106], [114]
Time occupied by cremation, [115]
Urns, &c., [119]
Vaults, burial in, [47], [59]
Water-supply, poisoning of, [51]
Weight of ashes, [115]
Works upon burial, [42], [89]
— — cremation, [127]
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