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Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Transportation of Dead Family Members
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:35:10 EDT


My understanding, from a good friend and now a retired funeral director, is
that bodies were first embalmed during the Civil War so that the deceased
could be transported back home for burial. I believe arsnic was in wide use at
the time but that would be easy to check on.

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