Ashes to ashes : a cremation prelude / by Rev. H.R. Haweis.

  • Haweis, H. R. (Hugh Reginald), 1839-1901.
Date:
1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ashes to ashes : a cremation prelude / by Rev. H.R. Haweis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    not preserve the buried dead securely from the outrages of the living. The people who dig graves, or are employed to remove bones, arc not as a rule scrupulous, but they are very often drunk.3 The other day only, a number of wild Irish were so employed,— says a correspondent at New York,—the bodies were offered for sale on the ground to a party of medical students. These young fellows had the grace to shrink from the horrors they then witnessed. One coffin was found full of a heavy decom- posed mass, like spermaceti: it was used to grease the axle-tree of the cart. Another coffin contained the body of a woman, aged twenty, as the inscription announced. She had rested for one hundred and seven years —laid there with what tears, what tender regrets of husband, or lover, or mother!