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">—— with two Mummies in it, ib.
  • Cedar-Ship built by Sesostris, 183.
  • Cedria, what, 271.
  • —— its Liquor, Oil, Pitch, Gum, &c. 272.
  • —— its Virtues, ib.
  • —— Clysters made of it, and their Operations, 273.
  • Cenotaphs, 97, 99.
  • —— why built, ib. &, 98.
  • Cera di Minera, 277.
  • Ceremonies in Funerals not to be neglected, 53.
  • —— how and when useful, 102.
  • Charon, 245, 301.
  • Cheop’s Tomb, 318.
  • —— the spacious Chamber which contains it, ib.
  • Chimistry invented by Hermes, 183.
  • Chimical Medicines useful in Embalming, 186, 245.
  • Cimon the Athenian buried his Horses, 30.
  • Cleopatra’s Palace, 214.
  • Clerk, who, 280.
  • Climate of Egypt, 145.
  • Closing the Eyes, 55.
  • —— —— why used, 56.
  • Coffins made of Sycamore, 295.
  • Conclamation, 57, 58.
  • —— thought useless by Santorellus, 58.
  • Cold Fire, a sort of Phosphorus, 365.
  • Cold of the old Hag, a Season so call’d, 154.
  • Colossus made of Emerald, 9 Cubits high, 186.
  • Collerus’s Funeral Oration, 43.
  • Comparative Anatomy, 4.
  • Corpora Condita, 285.
  • Corpus Medicatum, 284.
  • Corps, (Handsome) well-pleasing to the Ancients, 57.
  • —— why it soonest consumes in a Church-yard, 15.
  • Creatures, every one takes care of their own Funeral, 27.
  • Crowning the Dead, 69.
  • —— a Reward to Vertue, ib. & 70.
  • —— whence deriv’d, and to what end, 69.
  • CryptÆ, 202.
  • —— why so call’d, 96.
  • —— Kiovienses, 95.
  • —— one found at Nismes, 96.
  • Curing a Corps, what, 188.
  • Cynocephalus, 231.
  • D.
  • David’s Sepulchre, 37.
  • Day of Burial, when, 72.
  • —— of Burning, ib.
  • Delta, why so called, 127, 131.
  • Dead Bodies, why kept 7 Days, 58.
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  • —— thought by the Persians to be a God, 239.
  • —— —— by the Egyptians a living creature, ib.
  • Following the Corps, 82.
  • To become Food to Birds and Beasts, a Curse, 39, 40.
  • French, why they deny’d Burial, 25.
  • Funeral, why so called, 73.
  • —— Rites, why called Justa Funebria, 34.
  • —— Oration spoke before Battel, 43.
  • —— Procession, 282.
  • —— Games, 84.
  • Funus odoratum, 289.
  • Furca, or a Gibbet: All such as were hanged thereon, were by the Laws deny’d Burial, 48.
  • G.
  • Gabbares, 240.
  • Gemelhazar, 234.
  • Gauls embalmed with Oil of Cedar, 274.
  • Generals put to Death for neglecting to Bury the Dead, 42.
  • Gentiles, assign’d the Care of Funerals to certain Gods, 35.
  • Geometry, how invented, 231.
  • Gibnehalon, 163.
  • Gotsacker, 17.
  • Granaries of Joseph, 204.
  • Graves in the Highway, or under the Gallows, 49.
  • To be dug out of one’s Grave, a Curse and Punishment, 50.
  • Greeks deny’d decent Burial to infamous Persons and Criminals, 47.
  • Gulph of Mecca, or Arabian Gulph, 140.
  • Gymnasium, what it signifies, 171.
  • Gymnastic Art, ib.
  • H.
  • Hannibal took great care of Burial, 42.
  • Hatching of Chickens at Grand Cairo, 207.
  • Halmirhaga, 258.
  • Heliogabalus’s Body dragg’d about Streets, and flung into a Common-shoar, 51.
  • Henry the Seventh’s Chappel, 87.
  • Herald, 76, 286.
  • Hermes Trismegistus, 173.
  • —— supposed to be Armais, ib.
  • —— a great Philosopher, Priest and King, ibid.
  • —— —— establisher of Magic, 174.
  • Herodotus’s Account of the Egyptian Funerals, 241.
  • Hieroglyphic Characters, 290.
  • —— their signification, 293.
  • Highwaymen deny’d Burial, and set up on Wheels, &c. 48.
  • Homer’s Opinion of Sepulture, 35.
  • Horace’s Monument, 116.
  • Hypogeum, 96, 202.
  • I.
  • Ichnography and Schenography of the Burial Places, 203.
  • Jews deriv’d their Manner of Embalming from the Egyptians, 61.
  • Jewish Embalming rather a Ceremony than Preserving a Corps, 62.
  • Injectio GlebÆ, 92.
  • Inscriptions o -Closets, 317.
  • —— spacious Chamber,

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