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Cincinnati Daily Press
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
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In Washington, a committee of scientists and U.S. Patent Office examiners visited Dr. Thomas Holmes to observe the embalming process on soldiers' bodies for forwarding to families. The demonstration was successful, preparing corpses in 20 minutes using an ingenious instrument.
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In one hall the bodies were embalmed, and in another room they were very handsomely laid out in their coffins by the undertaker, Mr. Buchly. The committee expressed themselves much gratified with the success of the process.
The ejecting instrument invented and used by the Doctor is a very ingenious air vessel, self-operating, with a regulating ejecting pipe, by which the corpse is prepared in twenty minutes.- Washington Star, 18th inst.
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Washington
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This Morning, 18th Inst.
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bodies of several dead soldiers embalmed and prepared for forwarding to families; committee gratified with the success of the process.
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A committee of scientific gentlemen and United States Patent Office examiners visited Dr. Thomas Holmes' rooms to witness the embalming and filling of blood-vessels in dead soldiers' bodies. Bodies were laid out in coffins by undertaker Mr. Buchly. The process used an invented self-operating air vessel with regulating pipe, preparing each corpse in twenty minutes.