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Show Z TT Unman. Electrotypes. M. Kergovatz, a chemist of Brest, has proposed a new method of disposing of the human' body after death, which he considers preferable in every way to either burial or cremation. His system is an antiseptic one, much "simpler and less expensive than the .'old process of embalming, and is nothing more than a new galvanoplastic application. The body is coated with a conducting substance sub-stance such as plumbago, or is bathed with a solution of nitrate of silver, the after decomposition" of which, under the influence of sunlight, leaves a finely divided deposit of metallic silver. ..It is thenplacedin a" bath' of copper sulphate sul-phate and connected "for electrolysis with several cells of a gravity or other battery of constant current. The result re-sult is that the body is incased in a skin of copper, which prevents fnrther change or chemical action. If desired, this may be again plated with gold or silver, according to the , taste or wealth of the friends of the dead. "M.- Kergovatz Kergo-vatz has employed toe process eleven times on human subjecta, and on many animal, and states that in, all cases it was j perfectly satisfactory. In spite, however, i of his warm recommendation, the idea is j repulsive. It seems a mockery to give permanence to the temple when all. that once made it valuable is gone. Scientific American. - . |