Excerpt from Sepulture: Its History, Methods and Sanitary Requisites
Introduction; History of Sepulture; Ancient Customs and Methods; Sepulchres; Interments Among the Greeks; Customs Among the Romans; Persian Burial; North American Indian Burial; Early Christian Burial; Animal Putrescence; Malignant Disease from one Corpse; Saturated Soil of a Graveyard Disturbed; Intra-Mural Interment in the United States Yellow Fever; Asiatic Cholera; Pestilence; Rural Cemeteries; Coffins for the Dead; Country Graveyards
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