USRE2691E - george w - Google Patents

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GEORGE W. SGO LLAY, OF ST.

LOUIS, MISSOURI 22, 1867; anteda'ted Jan July 16, 186T.

Letler s Patent No. 61,472, dated January umy 19, 1867; reissue 1V0. 2,69I, dated IMPROVEMENT. IN EMBALMING DEAD BODIES AND GARGASSES.

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Be it known that I, GEORGE W, SCOLLA'Y ,of the city and courity of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, at present sojourning in fashington, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Im in the Art of Enbalming or Preserving Dead Bodies or Carcasses and I do hereby declare the following to be n i'ull, cicar, and exact description of the same.

I first generate or make. in any suitable r 'of which there are several, such as chlorine, either before or after it has been placed in the the antiseptic gases,

eceiver or retort some one or.1nore of I then take the body,

sulphurous, muriatic, or carbonic acid gas. eofin, and make an incision in the arterial n I introduce the beak of a flexible which the gas is generated or contained, said tube being fitted with a cock or-valve to regulate the flow of the gas. The connection having beenthus made between the body and the gas-receiver, generater, or holder, I open the I when the gas, by the pressure obtained in generating it in the' receiver, forces itself through the entire vascular system, and thoroughly incorporates itself with the tissue or subst from putrefaetion. This I think the'best internal application of the gas 7 h the rectum into the bowels, or through the nose or mouth into the stomach or lungs, but this method of appl ymg the gases Will not be found so-eli'cctuul g or hindering the decomposition of the entire body. In warm weather uni-injection of the gases but to efl'ectually, -preserve 'the body in all its cular system will be found most eflicient. In practising my invention a generator, receiver, or ehambermay be made in the cotfin, or in connection with it, or

separate from it, and fitted with a tube, which should beflexible, as described above, to make the connection between the body and thechamber before generatingthe gas, twithout a stop-cock or valve, so as to allow the gas toflow into the system as fast as generated. This plan may be pursued-in embalmbut my purpose is to make a chamber in the coflin, or in close connecso that the body can be put into the coffin, embalmed, closed up, and left In practising this invention, may be found that the amountof gas which the in either the bowels, stomach, or lungs, or in the arterial or vascular system, will not erve it in warm weather; tha-tis to so the antiseptic element contained in that ly embalm, the body, in which case it will be necessary to continue the flow of the gas through or into the vascular or arterial system, until enough of the antiseptic element h the tissue to preserve it. This continual flow of gasthrough the vascular system tion with it, to generate the gases in without further molestation. body will hold at onetime,

'nfiuenc'e of the gases externally or'in an open cofiin, as it issues from the gas into the vascular system, g gas by placingitin a tight o preserve the body a very long time. The body or carcass from A Tmornr Ononm.

What I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is' 1. Embalming dead bodies and carcasses, and preserving them from plitrefaction, by introducing antiseptic gas or gases into the arterial or vascular system, substantially as described. i 2(Embiflming dead bodies and carcusses or preserving them from putrefaction, by'the introduction of antiseptic gas or gases into the bowels, stomach, or lungs, substantially as set forth.

3. Embalming dead bodies or carcasses, or preserving them from putrefuction by combining the internal anti external applicntion of the gases thereto, substantially in tl1e mnnner aescribed. I

I GEORGE W. SCOLLAY.

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