ART OF EMBALMING IN OUR DAY, PREVIOUS TO MY DISCOVERIES,
p. 118.--Opinion of M. Pelletan upon the imperfect state of this
art--Dispute among the physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries,
upon the question of precedence--Embalming the senators of the
empire--Improvements proposed by M. Pelletan--Application of the
discoveries of Chaussier upon the preservative properties of the
deuto-chloride of mercury to the art of embalming--Embalming,
as practised by Béclard--Preservation of the body of Colonel
Morland, by M. Larrey--Remarks--Preservation of the body of a
young girl of ten years, by M. Boudet--Reflections on these
facts--Embalming of Louis XVIII., King of France--Fifteenth
observation--Criticism--Empyricism in this art--Exact appreciation
of the preservative properties of the deuto-chloride of
mercury--Superiority of the means which I propose.