Chapter I: Front Matter

PROF. E. H. CRANE’S
Manual of Instructions
TO UNDERTAKERS,
WITH
FULL AND COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE BEST METHODS FOR
Preserving the Dead,
INCLUDING MINUTE DIRECTIONS FOR
Arterial Injection,
WITH PLATES ILLUSTRATING THE LOCATION OF THE PRINCIPAL ARTERIES.

REVISED EDITION.

Copyright, 1888,
BY CRANE & ALLEN,
Kalamazoo, Mich.

Printed by Kalamazoo Publishing Co.

REVISED EDITION.

It is to be understood that this MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION is _not for sale_, but is only for your information and instruction while using the Excelsior Preservative, and that it will not be furnished to any other than our customers _at any price_.

Therefore we trust that you will keep this MANUAL under lock and key, or where no person other than yourself or your regular assistants can have access to it, as it contains all of the information and instructions that you could heretofore have gained by personal attendance on mine or any course of lectures on Embalming, at much expense of time and money, _with the single exception_ of a practical demonstration of the operation of taking up and injecting the Arteries.

This is, however, so fully and minutely described and explained in the MANUAL, with the aid of accurate drawings of the principal arteries—_see Chapters IX, X and XI_—that the operation can be easily learned without any other instruction.

E. H. CRANE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Chap. I. —Ancient Embalming.

„ II. —Care of Ordinary Cases.

„ III. —Cases requiring Cavity Injection.

„ IV. —Cases requiring a full Treatment without Arterial
Injection.

„ V. —Treatment in Cases indicating an Absence of immediate
Results and final Success.

„ VI. —The Preservative as a Disinfectant and Preventative of
Contagious Diseases.

„ VII. —The Preservative put up in Bottles for the use of
Unprofessional Persons.

„ VIII. —Embalming by Arterial Injection.

„ IX. —Injection of the Carotid Artery. (Illustration of location
of Carotid Artery.)

„ X. —Injection of the Brachial Artery. (Illustration of
location of Brachial Artery.)

„ XI. —Injection of the Femoral Artery. (Illustration of location
of Femoral Artery.)

„ XII. —Precautions to observe for the Safety of the Operator in
Embalming.

„ XIII —Chemical Affinities.

„ XIV. —Advantages to the Undertaker of Scientific Embalming.

„ XV. —Absorption by the Capillaries.

„ XVI. —Embalming Instruments.

„ XVII. —Caution in Storing and Keeping the Preservative.

Appendix, with commendatory letters, Page 48

Note—Care of the Manual, „ 141

Letter to our Customers, „ 142

PROF. E. H. CRANE’S

Manual of Instructions

TO UNDERTAKERS.