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.