An exposition of the dangers of interment in cities; illustrated by an account of the funeral rites and customs of the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and primitive Christians; by ancient and modern ecclesiastical canons, civil statutes, and municipal regulations; and by chemical and physical principles. Chiefly from the works of Vicq d'Azyr ... and Prof. Scipione Piattoli ... / with additons by Felix Pascalis.

  • Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, 1762-1833.
Date:
1823
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Credit: An exposition of the dangers of interment in cities; illustrated by an account of the funeral rites and customs of the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and primitive Christians; by ancient and modern ecclesiastical canons, civil statutes, and municipal regulations; and by chemical and physical principles. Chiefly from the works of Vicq d'Azyr ... and Prof. Scipione Piattoli ... / with additons by Felix Pascalis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    received from their priests, and in a word the whole religious doctrine and myth6logy of the Gre¬ cians, tended to support the laws that removed the bodies of the dead completely from the habita¬ tions of the living.—(Arnob. L 6. Marcel. c. 6ri CHAPTER IV. Funeral Ceremonies of the Romans* Nothing is more interesting in the history of that celebrated nation, than the endless variety of rites, laws, and forms, which they scrupulously ob¬ served towards the dead. One half of the ruins or emblematical antiquities remaining, relate to this. Their great respect and religious observance originated in their firm belief that the souls of theunburied must wander a hundred years along the borders of the Styx, before they received their final award. If, therefore, the body was lost, the friends of the deceased would erect an empty monument, tumulus inanis, or cenotaphium, around which they would perform the usual solemnities—( Vid, JEneid, Hi. 304. vi. 326—605.) Hence their practice of strewing a little earth over a neglected corpse, met by chance.—(Horat. Ode 1.28.) They also held it criminal to deprive even a slain enemy of decent burial, or to disturb the contents, or the