Chemical Affinities.
I will here give a few of the reasons why the Excelsior Preservative
will do all that I represent.
To those who are acquainted with chemical laws, hardly any discovery
seems too strange to be true. Chemical laws and their affinities are
truly wonderful, and if we are to produce a certain result on the dead
human system, we must make use of chemicals that have affinities for the
parts to be acted upon, and no affinity whatever for those parts that we
desire to leave intact or undisturbed.
Careful study and experience have taught me that albumen and gluten are
the principal if not the only putrescible substances with which we have
to deal in the preservation of the dead.
Putrescent gases and odors which originate from the decomposition of
those substances, partake largely of their nature, and even carry with
them minute atoms of the corrupted mass into the air we breathe, and it
matters not whether this putrid and offensive matter exist in the air or
flesh, where the Excelsior Preservative comes in contact with it the air
is at once cleansed and rendered wholesome, or the flesh preserved. My
Preservative is made from chemicals that act directly upon the albumen
and gluten, uniting with them to form a new compound, and the compound
so formed becomes a new substance, and this has an affinity for the
hitherto unaffected constituency of the flesh, which all combine to form
a new, pure, and imputrescible whole; by this means changing the
corruptible mass into a _perfectly preserved body for all time_. The
Excelsior Preservative being infinitely superior and paramount to all
other preparations known to man in either ancient or modern times for
the preservation of the human body in its natural and life-like
appearance.
[Illustration: [Fleuron]]