Cremation of the Dead: Its History and Bearings Upon Public Health

by William Eassie

[79] Professor Le Conte.

[80] Chapman.

[81] Griffiths.

[82] Vitruvius.

[83] Dr. Oliver.

[84] Herodotus.

[85] Journal Anth. Inst.

[86] St. A. St. John.

[87] In ancient Greece, unteethed infants, suicides, and lightning-stricken people, were forbidden the privileges of cremation.

[88] The first devised cinerator was that of Col. Thos. Martin, and in it any number of bodies could be calcined at a time, and still allow of a separate collection of the ashes. This cinerator was in the shape of a pentagon, to accommodate the various castes, and had a separate place allotted to the Brahmins.