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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    is in a canonic, legal, or technical form, or mixed with scho¬ lastic and Catholic questions, not very familiar nor intelli¬ gible to a protestant public. Those two writers having written at diflerent periods, and in different languages, they often repeat the same arguments and quote the same autho¬ rities. There were two things continually demanding at¬ tention in the translation : the one, from the necessity of re¬ trenching repetitions; the other, from the erudite notes in elucidation of the text, which were of too great number and variety to be tested by any theological library in this city. A plan, susceptible of developement for the classification of the materials selected from those works, w7as therefore necessary, and was adopted. I Thefi rst chapters of the “ Exposition ,” are condensed from a long dissertation on ancient modes of burial. The ninth, was partly abstracted from the preliminary discourse of Vicq Azyr. In the tenth are assembled together the legal acts scattered throughout the text of both writers. The eleventh is abridged from Piattoii. While I cannot trace an exact line between the translated and annexed matter in the work, 1 may say, that for the authorship of the four last chapters, I alone am responsible. If translators and expositors of works on polemic subjects were to content themselves with the authority of the notes to the text, without giving them to the reader, their labours would he of small value; even the compilations of Piattoii and Vicq d’Azyr, complete as they are, if they had not been warranted by the universal references that fill every page, would not have been handed down to us through a lapse of more than fifty years, as works of undeniable authority and unquestionable veracity. It would not have been doing them justice, to have divested this work entirely of these notes, although, in the main, they were intended for a Roman Ca¬ tholic community, and were only applicable in a Roman