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who died of empyema during my residence in that island* 
It was determined to embalm the body in order that it 
might be conveyed to the family vault in the north of Eng- 
land. The plan I adopted for embalming was a modifica- 
tion of one which has been described by a French operator. 
A small cut was made over the femoral artery in what is 
termed Scarpa’s triangle, a pipe was firmly tied into the 
artery and its other end connected with a tube of vulcanized 
caoutchouc ten feet long : in the other end of this was 
placed a large glass funnel, the body was then laid on the 
floor, and I mounted a flight of steps set beside it with the 
funnel in one hand and a gallon jug of “ Goadby’s solution,’* 
i.e., a strong solution of Corrosive Sublimate, Baysalt, and 
Creosote. Filling the tube and funnel I raised the latter 
till the hydrostatic pressure was sufficient to cause the fluid 
to flow gently but with great force into the vessels. I con- 
tinued to do this until clear fluid replaced the blood which, 
after a time, poured from the small divided branches of the 
femoral and other veins. The tube was once shifted, being 
first placed upwards, and when that end of the artery had 
been tied, inserted downwards so as to inject the corres- 
ponding leg. The quantity of fluid thus absorbed amounted 
to three gallons and a half. The coffin was then filled as 
before with pounded charcoal. The Portuguese medical 
official gave me the proper certificate, expressing much 
satisfaction at the process. Now this body had to be kept 
one month in the semi-tropical and singularly moist climate 
of Madeira, in the vault under the English church, before 
| it could be sent homo. I visited it several times, as did 
| other medical men, to test the success of the method, and 
' there was never the faintest smell of decomposition, or, 
