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If persons wish to avoid expense, and choose the second process, the
following is the method pursued: Syringes are filled with oil made
from the cedar-tree, which is then, without any incision or
disembowelling, injected into the abdomen. The passage by which it
might be likely to return is stopped, and the body laid in natrum the
prescribed number of days. At the end of the time the cedar-oil is
allowed to make its escape; and such is its power that it brings with
it the whole stomach and intestines in a liquid state. The natrum
meanwhile has dissolved the flesh, and so nothing is left of the dead
body but the skin and the bones. It is returned in this condition to
the relatives, without any further trouble being bestowed upon it.
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