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Excerpt from Description of an Egyptian Mummy, Presented to the Massachusetts General Hospital: With an Account of the Operation of Embalming, in Ancient and Modern Times It is a curious fact that the most perishable of substances, the esh of man, should present itself to us as one of the most ancient. Remains of human art: for there is nothing which claims a higher antiquity than the mummies, not even the catacombs that enclose them, nor the pyramids in their neighbourhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.