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dropsical, these should be made as early as possible to allow them to 

 drain. The thorax and abdomen are to be opened, and the whole of 

 their contents stripped down together, also the kidneys, in one mass, 

 and put into clean water. The brain is to be taken out, and the cranial 

 cavity filled with the ' coarse sweets,' and then sewed up again. The 

 cavity of the abdomen and thorax is to be filled with the same, and 

 sewed up in the usual way. The contents of the abdomen and thorax, 

 with the brain, are to be dried a little ; and, after the urn has had its 

 bottom well covered with the ' coarse sweets,' they are to be put into 

 it. The urn is then to be filled up with the same, soldered clown, and 

 the top screwed on. The urn is a cuble of about a foot and a half, lined 

 with lead. 



The quantity of cere-cloth is fourteen yards, of a green colour. The 

 fingers are rolled up separately, in straps the width of a penny ribbon, 

 and then altogether. The arms are rolled up in strips separately, and 

 the feet and legs the same. The body is wrapped up in two pieces, and 

 the face and head are covered with two pieces, and afterwards rolled 

 over with strips in every direction. The legs are then to be brought 

 together, and the two great toes tied, and then all rolled up in one ; 

 the arms are to be brought to the sides, and the whole body is to be 

 enveloped in two pieces, each seven feet long ; the whole making one 

 mass without any appearance of neck being retained. 



The gashes made in the muscles are to be filled up with the ' fine 

 sweets,' previous to the limbs being rolled up in the cere-cloth. The 

 body, being so enveloped, and all the edges being made to stick close 

 together with a warm flat iron, is to be enveloped by a piece of white 

 silk. The narrower this is the better, as it rolls so much better, begin- 

 ning at the head, and going down and up till the whole is well covered 

 with the white silk. The same is afterwards to be done with a piece 

 of purple silk, and tied in four places with white ribbon and with bow- 

 knots tied before. The purple is silk peculiar to the royal family. This 

 embalmed body is then to be put into the coffin, which is previously 

 partly filled, and afterwards entirely filled, with the sweets, and soldered 

 down. 



In this process, first binding up the limbs with linen rollers would 

 allow the cere-cloth to be much more neatly applied, and stick better 

 than it can be made to do to the skin. 



The composition for the cerate for the cere-cloth: — 

 Bees-wax 



,- aa 31b. 

 Yellow rosin 



Mutton suet 1 lb. 



Powdered Verdigris $i. 



