EMBALMING CORPSES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4144, 22 January 1916, Page 8

EMBALMING CORPSES.

EGYPT'S SECRET BARED

Modern science lias grasped the world-old secret of the Egyptian mummy, solving a riddle that for centunes has ptizzled renowned savants Chemists have at last ended the long quest for a process which duplicates the Egyptian method of preserv mg their dead, and will in course of time develop it into a more efficient art. than that practised by high priests 111 of Rameses and Pharaoh. Undertakers who heard tin's announcement at the session of the Cal l tor ilia, lumeral Directors declared unit r.ie now plan, when its use becomes general will eliminate the present custom of burial grounds and aid m solving the problem of cemeteries in cities where ground space i s at a hi oh premium. Ihe new process involves the placing of the dead in crypts or vratlts in largo buildings built for that purpose, just as the ancient Egyptians used immense tombs and catacombs ’ The fact that the mystery has been unravelled by modern genius -was made known in a talk by Louis H ' Turner; of Pasadena, before California undertakers in convention at the Civic auditorium. Turner, in making his announce, inent, said:—“lt is known that diming the long dry season on tlie desert a dead bodv will not disintegrate put will naturally mummify. Something of the same idea is used in the new plan of preserving humans ip lifelike form alter they have passed away.”