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those partial or general operations which appeared to be the most adequate for its proper preservation.
«The viscera having been taken out from the two leaden cases in which they were found, we placed them in a preserving bath while we completed our operations on the body.
«When these operations were finished, we agreed to place the viscera in their natural cavities, for which purpose we filled them with lint mixed with the powder recommended by Soubeiran; and we placed in the cavity of the skull, through the aperture already made there, all the large and small pieces into which the cerebrum had been cut, as also the cerebellum, the protuberance and a part of the oblong medulle. In the same manner, we placed in the abdomen and in the thorax, the heart, the lungs, the œsofagus, the thoracic aorta, the liver, the stomach, the bowels, the spleen and the kidneys.
« After having been properly bandaged with fine and varnished white linen and with guttapercha, we dressed the body with the clothes delivered by Mr. Davidson, excepting two pieces of underwear which were bought, as they were not found in the baggage which was in the posession of this gentleman.
« The body was then placed in a double case of varnished cedar and passion-wood, in the form of an urn, two meters 20 centimeters long, 60 centimeters high, and 75 centimeters wide, with a solid lock, the body lying in such a manner that it cannot be displaced in any way, not even by completely turning the case over. This case was placed in another of zinc, which having been hermetically closed by soldering, was covered by yet another ordinary wooden coffin, painted in black, to prevent the zinc case from being perforated by any accident whatever.
« All the objects which we used in our operations Were burned this morning in the grave-yard of Santa Paula, as were also the coffins, clothes, bandages etc., which came from Queretaro.
« All these operations were performed in the presence
