The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-10-19
TEACHING EMBAIMING.
A College With q Full-F1edged Faculty
and Curriculum Started.

A College With q Full-Fledged Faculty
and Curriculum Started.
"a college of embalming, with
full-fedged faculty, curriculum and
the necessary auxiliaries, is the latest
stride toward the establishment of the
undertaken as a professional man,"
said a city undertaken few days ago.
1.-The process of embalming is to be-
accepted by the undertaken as a neces-
sary adjunct Of his calling in the inn
mediate future. The revival of the
art has found favor and the demand
thus fOstered has necessitated the cre-
alton of bona fide college Of instruo
ton wherein the undertaken might
derive more thorough and practical
knowledge Of the organization of tho
human body than he is possessed of at
the present time; for in truth many
practising undertakers have no other
qualities of value to society than q
strong stomach and a readiness to works
both night and day, for, as you know.
the undertaker's office is never closed"
"About this college-its curriculum
embraces what?"
at will comprise lectures on angi-
ology-Qully explaining the arterial.
venOus, capillary and absorbent sys-
tems); physiology, or the science of
natural organization of the human
body, lectures on morbid anatomy, ex-
employing the post norton condition
of the body. in relation to the cause Of
death, and calculation of the embalm-
ing process, illustrated by demonstra-
tons on the dead subject, when pupils
will be required to perform the differ
ent operations incident to the subject"
'.Do you consider embalming the
most desirable method of dispOsing of
the dead? Have there not been other
methods used which are equally valu-
able?"
1.-The failure of cremation leaves the
civilized world still in doubt as to how
it shall best dispose of its dead. and
the brains of the undertaking profess
sion have been busy endeavoring to
conceive solution OF the problem or
offer a compromise. The result is a
compromise, in reality another revival
of the ancient MISUNDERSTANDING;
not in the tedious and laborious man.
ner of the Egyptians, however, but
in a practicable and easily applied
fashion.
1.-The argument of modern embalm-
ing is to the effect that body may be
preserved and the life-like appearance
retained or reproduced where ante
mortem decomposition has ensued to
q slight extent. In this it differs very
much from the intent Of the ancient or
so-called Egyptian custom, which
simply sought to preserve the body
from decay. In the United States en-
balming received its first impetus dur
ing the civil war, and many of the
bodies of officers and soldiers of both
armies were embalmed by army physi-
clans and sent home.
Schools OF embalming are now in
operation in many cities, having an at
tendance of fifty or more undertakes
students. As an aid to his pupils the
lecturer displays his skill upon the
body of some unfortunate contributed
by the city morgue, and with great
rapidity lays bare the femoral brachial
arteries. the principal ones used, and
which, by the application Of system
of measurement explained by the lee
turer, are found to be easy of access"
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