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ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ; Or, the Art of Embalming; / Wherein Is Shewn the Right of Burial, and Funeral Ceremonies, Especially That of Preserving Bodies After the Egyptian Method. Together With an Account of the Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Subterranean Vaults and Lamps, and Their Opinion of the Metempsychosis, the Cause of Their Embalming. As Also a Geographical Description of Egypt, the Rise and Course of the Nile, the Temper, Constitution and Physic of the Inhabitants, Their Inventions, Arts, Sciences, Stupendous Works and Sepulchres, and Other Curious Observations Any Ways Relating to the Physiology and Knowledge of This Art. cover

ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ; Or, the Art of Embalming; / Wherein Is Shewn the Right of Burial, and Funeral Ceremonies, Especially That of Preserving Bodies After the Egyptian Method. Together With an Account of the Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Subterranean Vaults and Lamps, and Their Opinion of the Metempsychosis, the Cause of Their Embalming. As Also a Geographical Description of Egypt, the Rise and Course of the Nile, the Temper, Constitution and Physic of the Inhabitants, Their Inventions, Arts, Sciences, Stupendous Works and Sepulchres, and Other Curious Observations Any Ways Relating to the Physiology and Knowledge of This Art.

Chapter 14: THE TABLE
By Thomas Greenhill
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A comprehensive survey of burial rites and techniques for preserving human remains, comparing funeral ceremonies from various cultures and focusing on ancient Egyptian mummification, tombs, and beliefs about the soul. It describes anatomical, chemical, and practical procedures for embalming, proposes refinements to established methods, and supplies a pharmacopoeia and recipes for preservative agents. The text situates funerary practices within geographic and environmental observations of Egypt and the Nile, and assembles scholarly letters, citations, maps, and illustrations to support its blend of practical guidance, experiments, and antiquarian description of sepulchral art.

THE
TABLE

  • A.
  • Abel-mizraim, 283.
  • Abiit, non obiit, why writ on Tombs, 55.
  • Abraham’s Burying-place, 8.
  • Absalom, how buried, 52.
  • —— his Pillar, ibid. & 86.
  • Achan and King Ai buried under a Heap of Stones, 51.
  • Acherusia, 301.
  • Achilles feared Sea-burial, 48.
  • Act of Burial, 72, 82.
  • Adam, where buried, 8.
  • Æneas, why called by the Name of Pious, 34.
  • —— afraid of Sea burial, 45.
  • —— took care of Sepulture, 43.
  • Agues malignant, 165.
  • Æthiopians, how they Embalm, 63.
  • Air and Water of Egypt both very good, 158.
  • Air of Egypt, very hot, 146.
  • —— —— cool’d by the Nile, and Annual Winds, ib.
  • —— —— moist, prejudicial to Embalming, 151.
  • —— —— unequal, bad for Embalming, 159.
  • Air poisoned, 13.
  • —— moist, infected by a putrid Carcass, 14.
  • Alexander very careful of his Sepulture, 42.
  • —— his Burial, 217, 218, 219, 220.
  • —— made a magnificent Funeral for his Horse Bucephalus, 30.
  • Alexandria, 211.
  • —— eminent for the Liberal Sciences, 215.
  • —— how industrious and flourishing, 235.
  • —— its Earth full of Nitre, 220.
  • Aloes, what meant by that Word in Embalming, 253.
  • Ἀλλάσσοντες, 185.
  • Amiantus Lapis, 360.
  • Anatomy, why so called, 180.
  • —— its Encomium, 182.
  • —— very useful in Embalming, ibid.
  • —— anciently performed by great and holy Men, 251.
  • Ancients feared Sea burial, 45.
  • Animals which bury their Dead, 26.
  • —— embalmed with Cedar, 274.
  • Anointing the Dead, 59, 60, 61.
  • —— a kind of Embalming, ib.
  • —— to what purpose used, 63.
  • Apis, 199.
  • Ἀφρόνιτρον, 260.
  • Apoplexy, 165.
  • Apollo the younger, 175.
  • Apothecary, 61, 62, 177, 188.
  • Armais, 173, 174.
  • Arithmetic, how first invented, 231.
  • Arts, how first invented, 229.
  • —— most flourishing in the Reign of Amasis, 235.
  • —— can never flourish where Quacks and Undertakers are, 179.
  • Art of making Gold and Silver, 183.
  • —— of tinging Glass, and making artificial Stones, 185.
  • —— of Distilling, Calcining, &c. 186.
  • —— of Bandage, 188.
  • —— of Poisoning the Air, 13.
    • which chiefly consists of Man’s Flesh, 14.
  • Asa’s Burial, 61.
  • Asphalt, 276.
  • —— how us’d in Embalming, ib. & 288.
  • Assius Lapis, 257.
  • Astrology of the Egyptians, 191.
  • —— how invented, 231.
  • Athothus, the ancient Egyptian Mercury, 170.
  • —— Inventor of Images, Characters, and Dancing, ib.
  • —— Sacrific’d Animals, and learned Embalming and Anatomy, 172.
  • Ἄταφον τάφον, 38.
  • Attiring the Corps, 64.
  • —— with white Vests, 66.
  • —— why it should be used, 66, 68.
  • —— what sort only exclaim’d against, 67.
  • Asbestos Lapis, 357.
  • —— its Oil, ib.
  • Asbeston, seu Asbestinum, 358.
  • —— two Objections against it, 359.
  • Averruncal Statues, 298.
  • Authors who have written of Sepulchral Lamps, 330.
  • B.
  • Babylon, 204.
  • —— in Chaldea, 225.
  • Babylonians, how they embalmed, 63.
  • Balsam Plant, 208.
  • —— Its Description, 209.
  • —— Virtues, 110.
  • Basaltes, an Ethiopic Stone, 251.
  • Bechira seu Bechiria, 127.
  • Bees, how they bury and embalm themselves, 28.
  • Berd il Agiuz, 154.
  • Bergwachs, 277.
  • Beth-chajim, 17.
  • Bitumen Judaicum, 276, 288.
  • Body, why to be taken care of, 25, 103, 105.
  • —— the Temple of God, 25.
  • —— stuff’d with Medicinal Ingredients, 252.
  • —— with Myrrh, Aloes, and Cinnamon, 253.
  • —— preserv’d in a Salt-Pit, 269.
  • —— salted with Nitre, 241, 254, 255, 269.
  • —— only prepared with Pissasphalt, 278.
  • —— with artificial Pissasphalt, ib.
  • —— why burnt, 50, 119.
  • First-born of Egypt slain, 343, 344.
  • Brain how extracted, 241, 248, 249.
  • Brutes buried with Pomp and Magnificence, 30.
  • A great Burning made for King Asa, 61.
  • Burning the Dead, how order’d, 83.
  • —— why used, 82.
  • —— how long continued in use, 85.
  • —— as liable to be ill treated by an Enemy as Burial, 50.
  • —— an ignominious Way of Burial, 85.
  • Burial, its Rise and Antiquity, 8.
  • —— 1st Cause of it, ib.
  • —— 2d Cause, 9.
  • —— 3d Cause, 16.
  • —— 4th Cause, 17.
  • —— 5th Cause, ib.
  • Burial, thought more beneficial to the Living than Dead, 9, 10.
  • —— frees from the Terror of Death, 11.
  • —— preserves Bodies from Putrifaction, 11, 15.
  • —— —— from the Plague, 12, 15, 27.
  • Burial, a Work acceptable to God, 33.
  • —— to our Saviour, ib.
  • —— an Act of Justice, ib.
  • —— a Work of Piety and Religion, ib.
  • —— of Mercy and Humanity, ib.
  • Burial, the Care of the Gods, 35.
  • —— an Honour to the Dead, ib.
  • —— an Happiness, Favour and Kindness, ib.
  • —— called by various Names, 33, 34.
  • —— how called by the Saxons, 92.
  • Burial-place, called by several Names, 17.
  • Burial in the City, 93. Vide, Places of Sepulture.
  • —— by some used in the Day, by others in the Night, 72.
  • —— more ancient than Burning, 85.
  • —— observ’d by Brutes as well as Men, 26.
  • —— decent, what, 49.
  • —— ignominious, what, 49, 51.
  • Why there ought to be different kinds of Burial, 35, 52, 53.
  • Burial, why despised by some, 21, 22.
  • —— in what Sense the Philosophers slighted it, 23.
  • —— the Want of it not prejudicial to the Soul, 18.
  • —— yet much feared by the Heathens, 21.
  • —— as believing the Souls of the unburied wandred 100 Years, ib.
  • Burial, the want of it a Punishment, 47.
  • —— some kinds of it a Punishment, 49, 51, 52.
  • To be buried like an Ass, a Curse, 38.
  • C.
  • Cæsar’s Palace, 213.
  • Cairo, Old and New, 205.
  • Caleg, 165.
  • Campus Sceleratus, or Burying-place of the Vestal Virgins, 50.
  • Campus Martius, 89.
  • Camsins, 154, 155.
  • Canal, or Khalis, 206, 213.
  • Canibals, eat Man’s Flesh, 14.
  • Cardan’s Mausoleum for a Fly, 29.
  • Care the Ancients took of Sepulture, 32.
  • Carrying forth the Corps, 71.
  • —— —— how managed, 73.
  • Carver, 286.
  • Castle of Roude, 133.
  • Cataracts of Nile, 130.
  • —— the greater, ib.
  • —— the lesser, 131.
  • Caves near the Pyramids, 323.
  • Cave called the Church, 329.
  • —— with two Mummies in it, ib.
  • Cedar-Ship built by Sesostris, 183.
  • Cedria, what, 271.
  • —— its Liquor, Oil, Pitch, Gum, &c. 272.
  • —— its Virtues, ib.
  • —— Clysters made of it, and their Operations, 273.
  • Cenotaphs, 97, 99.
  • —— why built, ib. &, 98.
  • Cera di Minera, 277.
  • Ceremonies in Funerals not to be neglected, 53.
  • —— how and when useful, 102.
  • Charon, 245, 301.
  • Cheop’s Tomb, 318.
  • —— the spacious Chamber which contains it, ib.
  • Chimistry invented by Hermes, 183.
  • Chimical Medicines useful in Embalming, 186, 245.
  • Cimon the Athenian buried his Horses, 30.
  • Cleopatra’s Palace, 214.
  • Clerk, who, 280.
  • Climate of Egypt, 145.
  • Closing the Eyes, 55.
  • —— —— why used, 56.
  • Coffins made of Sycamore, 295.
  • Conclamation, 57, 58.
  • —— thought useless by Santorellus, 58.
  • Cold Fire, a sort of Phosphorus, 365.
  • Cold of the old Hag, a Season so call’d, 154.
  • Colossus made of Emerald, 9 Cubits high, 186.
  • Collerus’s Funeral Oration, 43.
  • Comparative Anatomy, 4.
  • Corpora Condita, 285.
  • Corpus Medicatum, 284.
  • Corps, (Handsome) well-pleasing to the Ancients, 57.
  • —— why it soonest consumes in a Church-yard, 15.
  • Creatures, every one takes care of their own Funeral, 27.
  • Crowning the Dead, 69.
  • —— a Reward to Vertue, ib. & 70.
  • —— whence deriv’d, and to what end, 69.
  • Cryptæ, 202.
  • —— why so call’d, 96.
  • —— Kiovienses, 95.
  • —— one found at Nismes, 96.
  • Curing a Corps, what, 188.
  • Cynocephalus, 231.
  • D.
  • David’s Sepulchre, 37.
  • Day of Burial, when, 72.
  • —— of Burning, ib.
  • Delta, why so called, 127, 131.
  • Dead Bodies, why kept 7 Days, 58.
  • —— kept in their Houses, 304.
  • —— plac’d at the Table, ib.
  • Dead Sea, 143.
  • Death compar’d to Sleep, 56, 110.
  • Dei Ager aut Fundus, 17.
  • Delphian Oracle, how to be understood, 4.
  • Demonactes, how he desired to be buried, 23.
  • Deprivation of ones Sepulchre, a Curse, 37.
  • Description of the Ichnography and Scenography of the Subterranean Caves, 327.
  • —— of some Lamps, 333.
  • —— of the first and fairest Pyramid, 312.
  • —— of the Gallery, 316.
  • Dew of Egypt, 156.
  • Difference between Ecclesiastical and Criminal Burial, 49.
  • Dioclesian, why he burnt all Chimical Books, 184.
  • Diodorus Siculus’s Account of the Egyptian Funerals, 243.
  • Diogenes’ jocose Sayings concerning Sepulture, 22.
  • The Dissector, 177, 183, 250, 285.
  • Designer, 177, 250, 290.
  • Dolphins take care of their Dead, 26.
  • Domus Viventium, 17.
  • Dormitorium, 17, 100, 110.
  • Dresses and Ornaments of the Mummies, 294.
  • Dropsie, 164.
  • Drugs brought by the Caravan, 207.
  • To become like Dung, rotting upon the Earth, the severe Judgment and Punishment of God, 39, 40.
  • E.
  • Eccho very remarkable in the great Pyramid, 315.
  • Egypt, how scituate and bounded, 124.
  • —— its Denominations, 125.
  • —— why called Ægyptus, ib.
  • —— Govern’d by Coptus, 126.
  • —— its Extent, ib.
  • —— ancient and modern Division, ib.
  • —— its Fertility, 139.
  • —— the drying Quality of its Earth, 153.
  • —— Mistress of the World, and Mother of all Arts and Sciences, 190.
  • —— its Number of Cities and Inhabitants, 236.
  • —— how it came to be so populous, ib.
  • Egyptian, Æsculapius, 172.
  • —— Apollo, 169.
  • —— Mercury, 170.
  • —— Arts, how they came to be lost, 184.
  • Egyptians, their Characters, ancient and modern, 160.
  • —— their Make, Complexion, and Temper, 161.
  • —— Women very fruitful in Children, ib.
  • —— their Constitution and Habit of Body, 162.
  • —— very long liv’d, ib.
  • —— their Diseases, 163.
  • —— first Authors of Medicine, 168.
  • —— well skill’d in Anatomy, 179.
  • —— —— in Ostiology, 182.
  • —— their Antiquity, 190.
  • —— Inventions, ib.
  • —— Astrology, 191.
  • —— Mathematics, ib.
  • —— Architecture, 193.
  • —— their Opinion of the Metempsychosis, 238.
  • —— their Belief of the Resurrection, 106, 240.
  • —— Famous in Arts and Sciences, 189.
  • —— the first Inventors of them, 190.
  • —— by what Means they perform’d such wonderful Works, 237.
  • —— and to what end, ib.
  • —— the first Inventors of Embalming, 61.
  • —— why they embalmed Bodies, 106.
  • —— how they embalm’d them, 238, 248.
  • —— they embalmed Cats, Crocodiles, Hawks, &c. 32.
  • —— they set their Dead on their Feet, 85.
  • —— they deny’d Burial to executed Persons, 47.
  • Elatio, or the carrying forth a Corps, 71.
  • Elephants bury their Dead, 29.
  • Embalming, a noble Art, 4.
  • —— a Branch of Surgery, 2.
  • —— very useful in Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Divinity, Physic, &c. 2, 3, 4.
  • —— chiefly practised by Undertakers, 2.
  • —— particularly useful in Anatomy and Surgery, 3.
  • —— teaches Medicines against Gangrenes, &c. 4.
  • —— what accounted by the Ancients, and what by the present Age, 4, 5.
  • —— its Antiquity, 5.
  • —— invented by the Egyptians, ib.
  • —— of general Use, ib.
  • —— by most despised, ib.
  • —— the chief of all funeral Ceremonies, 103.
  • —— the best Way of Preserving the Memory of the Dead, 107.
  • —— not contrary to the Scriptures, 108.
  • —— acceptable to God, 112.
  • —— approved by our Saviour, 115.
  • —— an Emblem of the Resurrection, 112.
  • Embalming, in a general sense very extensive, 115.
  • —— the most durable thing, 117.
  • —— useful in Phisiology and Physic, 18.
  • —— in Anatomy, ib.
  • —— in Surgery, ib.
  • —— necessary for transporting Bodies, 119.
  • —— secures from the Insults of Animals, 120.
  • —— what intended by it, 120, 121.
  • —— that of the Hebrews different from that of the old Egyptians, 61.
  • Embalming, how found out, 233.
  • —— 2 or 3 sorts of it, 241, 242, 275, viz.
  • —— with Pissasphalt, 287.
  • —— with Cedar, ib.
  • —— with Asphalt, 288.
  • —— with Aromatics, ib.
  • Embalming of Jacob, 281.
  • —— —— performed in 40 Days, 282.
  • Embalmer, 177.
  • —— much honoured, 250.
  • Embowelling a Corps, 251.
  • Entrance into the Caves, 326.
  • Enoch and Elijah, neither dy’d nor corrupted, 115.
  • Epitaph on a Bee, 28.
  • Epagomene, 153.
  • Ἐνταφιοπώλις, 286.
  • Ἐνταφιαστής, ib. & 280, 286.
  • Erdwachs, 277.
  • Erriff, 127.
  • Euripides’s Opinion of Sepulture, 35.
  • Expences of a Funeral, insignificant without Embalming, 102.
  • Experiments concerning Scarcity of Rain in Egypt, 157.
  • —— of the Water, 158.
  • —— for making eternal Fire, 352.
  • —— the 1st, ib.
  • —— the 2d, 354.
  • F.
  • Fame the Goddess of Embalming, 117.
  • Feasts for the Dead, 84.
  • —— of Lamps, 341.
  • —— to what end instituted, 343.
  • —— the true and sacred Reason, ib.
  • Fengo, the Tyrant’s Ashes scattered by the Winds, 51.
  • Fire an Emblem of the Soul, 331.
  • —— —— of Life eternal, 332.
  • —— thought by the Persians to be a God, 239.
  • —— —— by the Egyptians a living creature, ib.
  • Following the Corps, 82.
  • To become Food to Birds and Beasts, a Curse, 39, 40.
  • French, why they deny’d Burial, 25.
  • Funeral, why so called, 73.
  • —— Rites, why called Justa Funebria, 34.
  • —— Oration spoke before Battel, 43.
  • —— Procession, 282.
  • —— Games, 84.
  • Funus odoratum, 289.
  • Furca, or a Gibbet: All such as were hanged thereon, were by the Laws deny’d Burial, 48.
  • G.
  • Gabbares, 240.
  • Gemelhazar, 234.
  • Gauls embalmed with Oil of Cedar, 274.
  • Generals put to Death for neglecting to Bury the Dead, 42.
  • Gentiles, assign’d the Care of Funerals to certain Gods, 35.
  • Geometry, how invented, 231.
  • Gibnehalon, 163.
  • Gotsacker, 17.
  • Granaries of Joseph, 204.
  • Graves in the Highway, or under the Gallows, 49.
  • To be dug out of one’s Grave, a Curse and Punishment, 50.
  • Greeks deny’d decent Burial to infamous Persons and Criminals, 47.
  • Gulph of Mecca, or Arabian Gulph, 140.
  • Gymnasium, what it signifies, 171.
  • Gymnastic Art, ib.
  • H.
  • Hannibal took great care of Burial, 42.
  • Hatching of Chickens at Grand Cairo, 207.
  • Halmirhaga, 258.
  • Heliogabalus’s Body dragg’d about Streets, and flung into a Common-shoar, 51.
  • Henry the Seventh’s Chappel, 87.
  • Herald, 76, 286.
  • Hermes Trismegistus, 173.
  • —— supposed to be Armais, ib.
  • —— a great Philosopher, Priest and King, ibid.
  • —— —— establisher of Magic, 174.
  • Herodotus’s Account of the Egyptian Funerals, 241.
  • Hieroglyphic Characters, 290.
  • —— their signification, 293.
  • Highwaymen deny’d Burial, and set up on Wheels, &c. 48.
  • Homer’s Opinion of Sepulture, 35.
  • Horace’s Monument, 116.
  • Hypogeum, 96, 202.
  • I.
  • Ichnography and Schenography of the Burial Places, 203.
  • Jews deriv’d their Manner of Embalming from the Egyptians, 61.
  • Jewish Embalming rather a Ceremony than Preserving a Corps, 62.
  • Injectio Glebæ, 92.
  • Inscriptions on Tombs, 87, 90, 94, 95, 196.
  • Insects, which take Care of their Dead, 26.
  • —— how they bury themselves, 28.
  • —— some burn’d and others embalm’d, 29.
  • Insepulta sepultura, 38.
  • Interment, the first Cause of it, 8.
  • Josiah took Bones out of their Sepulchers and burnt them, 50.
  • Isis taught the Egyptians salubrious Plants, 168.
  • —— the Inventor of Images, 170.
  • Isle of Pharos, 220.
  • Judging the Dead, 244, 302.
  • K.
  • ΚΕΝΟΤΆΦΙΟΝ, 97.
  • Khalis of Cleopatra, 220.
  • Kissing the Dead, 54.
  • —— to what end used, ib. & 55.
  • —— rather prejudicial than otherwise, 55.
  • Κοιμητήριον, 17.
  • Korah, Dathan, and Abiran, buried alive, 49.
  • L.
  • Labyrinth, 222.
  • —— by whom and to what end built, 223, 224.
  • Lake Mœris, 141.
  • —— —— why so called, 142.
  • —— Asphaltites, 143, 144.
  • Lamps perpetual, to what end invented, 331, 343.
  • —— supposed to have burnt in the first Pyramid, 333.
  • —— in subterranean Caves and Vaults, 96, 333.
  • —— that have burn’d by a Divine Power, 351.
  • —— that have burn’d by the Wiles of the Devil, ib.
  • —— —— or from a natural Cause, 352.
  • —— or can be made with Gold, Silver, &c. 353.
  • —— or Mercury, ib.
  • —— with Naptha, 355.
  • —— with liquid Bitumen, or Petroleum, 356.
  • —— confirm’d by Schiangia, ib.
  • —— and believed by Kircher, ib.
  • —— whether their Perpetuity proceeded from the Oil or Wick, 363.
  • —— thought to be a sort of Phosphorus, 365.
  • —— how made according to Licetus’s Opinion, 366.
  • —— Hieroglyphics, or Symbols of the Immortality of the Soul, 367.
  • Lamp of the Alexandrian Pharos, 337.
  • —— with a Dog’s Head, 340.
  • —— found at Edessa, 351.
  • —— of a Heliotrope, 336.
  • —— of Jupiter Ammon, 350.
  • —— with four Lights, 339.
  • —— of Minerva, 350.
  • —— of the Moon, 338.
  • —— of Mycerinus, 341.
  • —— with an Ox’s Head, 340.
  • —— of an Ox with a Boy on his Back, 337.
  • —— of Olybius, 351.
  • —— of Pallas, 348.
  • —— of Serapis, 333, 334.
  • —— of a Sphinx, 338, 339.
  • —— with two beaked Ships, 339.
  • —— of a tripple-headed Monster, 334.
  • —— of Tulliola, 345, 346.
  • —— of Typhon, 335.
  • —— of Venus, 351.
  • Languages and Characters of the Egyptians of two kinds, 291.
  • Lapis Asbestos, 357.
  • —— Amiantus, 360.
  • —— Cyprius, ib.
  • —— Carystius, 361.
  • Laws, their Goodness, 234.
  • —— made to restrain the Extravagancy of Funeral Ceremonies, 73, 79.
  • Laying out a Corps, 70.
  • —— why used, 71.
  • Lazarus embalmed, 62.
  • Lecticæ seu Lecti, 74.
  • Letter to Charles Bernard, Esq; 1.
  • —— to Dr. John Lawson, 123.
  • —— to Dr. Hans Sloan, 307.
  • Libitina, 286.
  • Libitinarii, ib. & 340.
  • Library of Ptolomy, 185, 216.
  • Linum vivum, 358.
  • —— Cyprium, 300, 362.
  • —— Carpasium, 361.
  • —— Creticum, 362.
  • Lodgings of the Priests, 320.
  • Lucretius, his Opinion of Sepulture, 24.
  • Lues Venerea, its supposed Origin, 14.
  • M.
  • Machpelah, Abraham’s Burying-place, 8.
  • Magical Medicine spread over most Countries, 175.
  • Magic used in Embalming, 176.
  • Magnesia, 362.
  • Maltem, 155.
  • Man, the Epitome and Perfection of the Macrocosm, 4.
  • —— his Elogium, 108.
  • —— his Transgression, ib.
  • —— has a right to a Burial-place in the Earth, 7.
  • Manes, Gods of Funerals, 35.
  • Mare mortuum, 143.
  • Caius Marius’s, Bones dug up and flung into the Sea, 50.
  • Matarea, 208.
  • Mathematics, 191.
  • Medicines, why call’d Pharmaca, 175.
  • Memphis, 199.
  • Memphitis Lapis, 187.
  • Memnon’s Statue, 192.
  • Mercury II., 173.
  • Merissi, 154, 155.
  • Metempsychosis, 238.
  • Milesian Virgins, how deterr’d from hanging themselves, 48.
  • Mina, what, 197.
  • Monuments built during Life, 86, 87.
  • —— why call’d Muniments, 99.
  • —— why Monuments, 100.
  • —— made of Glass, 101.
  • Mourning, 241, 242, 246, 247, 248.
  • —— the Manner of it, 77.
  • —— with Sackcloth and Ashes, 78.
  • —— cutting and tearing the Flesh, ib.
  • —— Habit, 75.
  • Mourners feigned, 78.
  • Mouth of the Dead, why shut, 57.
  • Mummies found in the Sands, 152.
  • —— several things found included in them, 297.
  • —— Sophisticate, 279.
  • Murderers denied Burial, 47, 48.
  • N.
  • Nature has provided Burial and a Grave for all Creatures, 30.
  • Νεκροκόσμος, 279, 286.
  • Nicias took great care to bury the slain, 43.
  • Nicodemus and Joseph embalm’d our Saviour, 62.
  • Nile River, 127.
  • —— its Rise and Course, 129.
  • —— its Cataracts, 130.
  • —— its Ostia, or Mouths, 132.
  • —— its Inundation, 132.
  • —— time of its Increase, 133.
  • —— its Effects, 134.
  • —— Cause of its Fertility, 135.
  • —— of its Increase, 136.
  • —— Operation of its Waters, 137.
  • Ninus’s Sepulchre, 225.
  • Nitrum Chalastræum, 257, 263.
  • —— Chalastricum, 264.
  • —— Berenicum, 257.
  • Nitre Armenian, 258.
  • —— Lydian, 262.
  • —— Egyptian, 264.
  • —— of Buna, 258.
  • —— of Turkey, ib.
  • —— three kinds, 260.
  • —— different Opinions of it, 266.
  • —— that of the Ancients the same with our Salt Petre, 268.
  • —— used in Cookery, 269.
  • —— —— in Embalming, 255.
  • Nitri Spuma, 257, 260, 265.
  • Nomi septem, 127.
  • O.
  • Obelisk of Semiramis, 191, 228.
  • —— two at Alexandria, 214.
  • Observations on the Nile, 135.
  • —— on the Pyramids, 322.
  • —— on the subterranean Caves, 327.
  • Office of Embalming, 279.
  • Opobalsamum, 210.
  • Osiris taught the Egyptians Food and Drink, 168.
  • Orus, Son of Osiris, apply’d for Physic, salubrious Plants, by sacrificing them, 168.
  • —— to which he added Music, 169.
  • —— and Poetry, ib.
  • —— thence thought to be the Egyptian Apollo, ib.
  • Ossilegium, 84.
  • Osymandua’s Tomb, 195.
  • Ovid afraid of Sea-Burial, 46.
  • Ointment of Children’s Fat used by Witches, 14.
  • —— of Spikenard, 62.
  • P.
  • Pagans not without some hopes of the Resurrection, 24, 112.
  • Painter, 286, 290.
  • Painting of the Dead used in France and Italy, 74.
  • Pall, why used, ib.
  • Palace of Cleopatra, 214.
  • —— of the Mamaluke Sultans, 206.
  • Pallium used by the Greeks to cover their Dead, 65.
  • Pantænus, first Reader of Divinity and Philosophy, 215.
  • Patriarchs, where buried, 8.
  • Pawning the Dead, 246, 303.
  • Pensil Gardens, 227.
  • Pentapolis, 144.
  • Persians, how they Embalm, 63.
  • Persons present at Funerals, 74.
  • —— how qualify’d for Embalming, 177.
  • Pharaoh’s Punishment, 12.
  • Pharos, or Watch-Tower, 221.
  • Philosophers contemplated on Life and Death, 7.
  • —— in what sense they slighted Burial, 23.
  • Phosphorus, 365.
  • Physic, how found out, 232.
  • Physician, 280.
  • Piaster, what, 329.
  • Pickle made of Nitre, 266.
  • Pissasphalt natural, 276.
  • —— artificial, 278.
  • —— natural, call’d Mummy, 277.
  • Places of Sepulture, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94.
  • Plague, 165.
  • —— ceases at the Inundation of the Nile, 134, 135, 166.
  • Plain of Mummies, 329, 330.
  • Plato defines the Scope and End of his Philosophy, to be only the Consideration of Death, 8.
  • Pluto, the chief of the Funeral Gods, 35.
  • Polliacus erected a Tomb in Memory of his beloved Bitch, 30.
  • Polycharacteristic Statues, 299.
  • Pollinctor, 177, 285.
  • Poisons made of Man’s Flesh, 14.
  • Pox, (French) 165.
  • —— Small, ib.
  • Pompey’s Pillar, 212.
  • —— by whom built, 213.
  • Præficæ, hired Mourners, 76.
  • Priests, the proper and only Physicians, 172, 177.
  • —— their Business, 188.
  • Problem concerning Diet, 162.
  • Procession of a Funeral, 76.
  • Providence of God extends even to the Bodies of the Dead, 33.
  • Prophylactic Statues, 298.
  • Psalms and Hymns when introduc’d, 76.
  • Ptolomean Library, 216.
  • Puticulæ, 88.
  • Putrifaction, its pernicious Effects, 11, 12, 13.
  • Pyramids, 311.
  • —— why so call’d, 331.
  • —— to what end built, 237, 309.
  • —— why of a pyramidal Form, ib.
  • —— their Number, 310.
  • —— Scituation, ib.
  • —— their Founders, ib.
  • —— Description of the first, 312.
  • —— the Entrance into it, 313.
  • —— first and second Gallery, ib.
  • —— the Well, 314.
  • —— strange Eccho, 315.
  • —— fine Gallery, 316.
  • —— two Anti-Closets, 317.
  • —— spacious Chamber, 318.
  • —— Cheop’s Tomb, ib.
  • —— how many Men employ’d in building it, 319.
  • Pyramid the second, 319.
  • —— its Lodgings for the Priests, 320.
  • —— the third, ib.
  • Q.
  • Quacks, who, 177.
  • —— none in Egypt, 178.
  • Quietorium seu Requietorium, 100.
  • R.
  • Rains in Egypt, 147, 155.
  • Red-Sea, 140.
  • Reflections on the Egyptian Embalming, 246.
  • Resurrection, the Hope of it the chief Cause of Burial, 18.
  • Right of Burial and Funeral Ceremonies, 5.
  • —— grounded on the Law of God and Nature, 25.
  • Roulers, how prepar’d, 289.
  • Rudder of a Ship, how first invented, 230.
  • S.
  • Sacara, how the Inhabitants get their Livelyhood, 325.
  • Sacrifices to the Dead, 84.
  • Sacrilegious Persons deny’d Burial, 47.
  • Sand, how useful in Embalming, 151.
  • Sandapilarii, 74.
  • Salt made of the Nile Waters, 139, 220.
  • —— used with Balsamics preserves Bodies, 270.
  • Salitores, Salters, or Pollinctors, 254, 285.
  • Sarah, where buried, 8.
  • Scabs and Leprosie of Egypt, 164.
  • Scipio afraid of Sea-Burial, 45.
  • Scribe, or Designer, 250.
  • Scroles painted with Characters, 296.
  • Scythians, how they Embalm, 63.
  • Sea-Burial, why feared by the Ancients, 46.
  • Searchers, their Office, 71.
  • Seasons of the Year, 153.
  • —— —— temperate, ib.
  • —— —— cold, 154.
  • —— —— intemperate, ib.
  • —— why to be observ’d in Embalming, 156.
  • Seminatio, 17.
  • Septuagint, 216.
  • Serapis, or Apis, the Egyptian Æsculapius, 172.
  • Serapes, 298.
  • —— their Forms and Actions, 299.
  • —— their Use and Virtues, 301.
  • Serapion, 215, 217.
  • Sepulchres, why call’d Requietoria, 47.
  • —— some proper, 94.
  • —— common, 95.
  • —— belonging to the Family, ib.
  • —— hereditary, ib.
  • Sepulchre, call’d by the Egyptians Domus æterna, 101.
  • —— why call’d eternal Houses, 305.
  • —— of Osiris, 200.
  • —— of Mycerinus’s Daughter, ib.
  • —— of Alexander, 217.
  • —— of Ninus, 225.
  • —— of the Egyptian Kings, 194.
  • Sepulture rightly accounted Jus Naturæ, 5.
  • —— a Debt to Nature, ib.
  • —— ordain’d by God himself, 5.
  • —— practis’d by the Heathens, 6.
  • —— asserted in the Scriptures, 7.
  • —— confirm’d by the Philosophers and Poets, ib.
  • —— instituted in obedience to the Love of God and Nature, 8.
  • —— defends from the Plague, 15.
  • —— and preserves Bodies, ib.
  • —— why invented, 16.
  • —— strictly observed in War, 42.
  • —— yet deny’d some out of Revenge, 41.
  • —— always esteem’d honourable among God’s People, 85.
  • Sesostris’s Cedar Ship, 183.
  • Ships of Arabia, 207.
  • Silk-worm, spins her own Winding-sheet, 29.
  • Situation of the Dead in their Sepulchres, 85, 86.
  • Smell of a Goal very pernicious, 14.
  • Snow in Egypt, 149.
  • Somia, the Burial-place of the Ptolomies, 217.
  • Sorceresses feed on Man’s Flesh, 14.
  • Sore Eyes and Blindness of the Egyptians, 163.
  • Soul concern’d at the ill Usage of the Body, 104, 105.
  • Sounding of Brazen Vessels about the Dead, 57.
  • Sphinx, 321.
  • —— represents Momphta, 322.
  • Stoics, value not the Corruption of the Body, 20.
  • Stonehenge the Sepulchre of the Britains, 91.
  • Stones heap’d over a Body, an ignominious sort of Burial, 51, 52.
  • Summer of Egypt, 154.
  • Subterranean Caves, 202, 324.
  • Surgery the chief of Arts, 1.
  • —— invented and improved in Egypt, 187.
  • —— how useful in Embalming, 188.
  • —— teaches the Art of Bandage, ib.
  • Surgeon, the chief Embalmer, 188, 283.
  • —— his Business, 284.
  • Sylla the Dictator, order’d his own Corps to be burnt, that he might not be ill treated by his Enemies, 50, 83.
  • T.
  • Taricheutæ, 254, 285.
  • Τάριχος, 293.
  • Ταριχεύειν, 254.
  • Templi Hortus, 17.
  • Temple of Belus, 226.
  • Teneriff, the Inhabitants Manner of Sepulture and Embalming, 113.
  • Thebais, 127.
  • Thebes, 193.
  • Θεουργικὴ τέχνη, 171.
  • Theology of the Egyptians, 238.
  • Θεραπεύω, its signification, 175.
  • Thrum-stone, 361.
  • Thunder seldom heard in Egypt, 156.
  • Time of carrying forth the Corps, 72.
  • Tincar, 261.
  • Tobit’s great Care in burying the Dead, 33.
  • Toga us’d by the Romans to cloath their Dead with, 65.
  • Tombs erected for Horses, and honoured with Epitaphs, 30.
  • —— why dedicated Diis Manibus, 35.
  • Tomb of a Dog at Rome, 30.
  • —— of King Amasis, 321.
  • —— of a Cat, 31.
  • Tombs, their Use and Benefit, 98.
  • —— how adorn’d, and with what Inscriptions, 99.
  • —— how called, 99, 100.
  • —— why call’d Tumulus, 92, 99.
  • —— inanis, seu Tumulus sine Corpore, 97.
  • Traitors deny’d Burial, 47, 48, 49.
  • V.
  • Vespillones, why so called, 73.
  • —— their Office, 74.
  • Vestal Virgins, how buried, 50.
  • Vitellius’s Body cut in pieces, and flung into the Tyber, 51.
  • Unguentum Cedrinum, 287.
  • Undertakers, 2, 177, 178, 179, 185.
  • ὙΠΌΓΕΙΟΝ, 96.
  • Urns of Glass found at Nismes, ib.
  • W.
  • Wall built by Sesostris, 224.
  • Washing a Corps, why used, 60.
  • —— why with warm Water, 59.
  • —— why with Salt, ib.
  • Water of Nile very prolific, 236.
  • Weeping, if moderate, commendable, 79.
  • —— us’d by Kings and Patriarchs, ib.
  • —— by our Saviour, 80.
  • —— allays Grief, 81.
  • Wells of embalmed Birds, 328.
  • A Virgin Well, 329.
  • Wiek and Oil, both in a Lamp, 364.
  • Winds which blow most in Egypt, 155.
  • Winter in Egypt, 154.
  • Workmen, what Number imploy’d in building the first Pyramid, 319.
  • Writings thought the best Monument, 116.
  • X.
  • Xantippus buried his Dogs, 30.
  • Χυμεία, 183.
  • Xylobalsamum, 210.
  • Z.
  • Zeilan, Inhabitants their Manner of Sepulture, 113.