Seasonable considerations on the indecent and dangerous custom of burying in churches and church-yards. With remarkable observations historical and philosophical ... Proving, that the custom is not only contrary to the practice of the ancients, but fatal, in case of infection / [Anon].

  • Lewis, Thomas, 1689-1749?
Date:
1721
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Credit: Seasonable considerations on the indecent and dangerous custom of burying in churches and church-yards. With remarkable observations historical and philosophical ... Proving, that the custom is not only contrary to the practice of the ancients, but fatal, in case of infection / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Again, I further anfwer,that it is a Miftake, that any Pavements, or Tomb-3Bhes, can prevent any Ef¬ fluvia or Stenches from afceffiling : There is no Stone or Mortar fo clofe but has Pores fufficient for thofe Exhalations; witnefs the hardeft Mai ble giving, or breathing out againfl: wet Weather: Pray whence comes that Vapour f Whence does it arife ? It falls not cer¬ tainly through the Tiles, or Roofs of Churches, or through feveral Stories in Houfes in dry Weather; no, it afeends from the Earth, it rifes from the Ground, and comes through the Pores of the Stone, and fuch as it is, pure or impure, as the Nature of fuch a Soil can be, that is filled with Dead Bodies which dyed of all Sorts of Difbmpers. The hardeft Flint will imbibe Water, and the hard- pfl: Tomb-Stone laid in a River will be foked through, though it fwell not like a Sponge, yet has Pores e- nough for Water to run through, or for Vapours, Steejns, and Stenches to be exhaled through. 77;e