[169] 'Hydriotaphy, or Urn Burial,' 1658, and other editions.
[170] 'Origin of Cremation.' Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. viii.
[171] 'Burning the Dead, or Urn Sepulture,' by Mr. Chas. Cobbe. A few copies are still obtainable from Knowles, Celbridge Place, Bayswater, London.
[172] Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead. Reports for the years 1857-1858, 1864, 1867, 1873, and 1874.
[173] 'Cremation.' H. S. King & Co., London. 2nd ed. 1s.
[174] Since the publication of Sir Henry Thompson's work, and the reports of the active propaganda which is being carried on abroad, a great number of articles, favourable or well inclined to the practice, have appeared in the public press: for instance, in the 'Daily News,' 'Telegraph,' 'Standard,' 'Morning Advertiser,' 'Globe,' 'Saturday Review,' 'Court Journal,' and numerous illustrated and other papers. The 'British Medical Journal,' 'Lancet,' 'Medical Press and Circular,' 'Medical Record,' 'Sanitary Record,' 'Students' Journal and Hospital Gazette,' &c., have also borne witness to its value as a sanitary measure. Both Church and Nonconformist journals have moreover written in its favour, and several able articles have appeared in the periodicals, for example, in the 'Dublin University Magazine' and 'Westminster Review.' Most valuable assistance, demanding special notice, has also been rendered to cremation by that highly scientific periodical, 'Iron.' The process has also been made the subject of discussion in various debating societies, and in May 1874 the Cambridge University Union adopted a motion by 101 votes to 42 in favour of introducing it into England.
[175] 'We disapprove the present custom of burying the dead, and desire to substitute some mode which shall rapidly resolve the body into its component elements by a process which cannot offend the living, and shall render the remains absolutely innocuous. Until some better method is devised, we desire to adopt that usually known as Cremation.'
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