He even developed a method of injecting preserving fluids into veins, a precursor to the modern arterial method. Contemporary embalming methods really became mainstream around the time of the ...

In 1838, the Frenchman Jean Gannal published “Histoire des Embaumements,” describing a process that kept the body more or less intact but replaced the body’s blood with a preservative – a technique ...

One of the most fascinating is how the founding of the modern funeral industry can essentially be traced back to President Abraham Lincoln and his embrace of embalming. A surgeon embalms a soldier ...

In Europe, they were experimenting with something called “arterial embalming,” flushing out the blood and filling the arteries with a preservative like alcohol. When the Civil War broke out ...

Also, the mouth is closed and the jaw is secured. ARTERIAL EMBALMING: The blood is removed from the body via veins and replaced with other liquid solutions. This solution is usually a combination ...

Dodge’s best-selling chemical is Introfiant, a high-index arterial fluid that some embalmers call Purple Jesus. “That’s because if they had to say a prayer to get the embalming done ...

[Related: A 31,000-year-old grave in Indonesia holds the earliest known amputation patient] Today, this kind of temporary preservation is usually done by arterial embalming. Blood and other fluids ...

Roughly speaking, what are the steps of embalming? The basic idea is that you inject the arterial system with embalming fluid. We tend to use the right carotid artery [a major artery on the side ...

Undertaker Theodore Auman tried to preserve the body of the deceased using arterial embalming – and his experiment ended up working a little too well. For more than a century, “Stoneman Willie ...

As the world mourns the passing of Pope Francis at the age of 88, the Vatican has begun the solemn process of laying the pontiff to rest — a process steeped in centuries-old Catholic tradition ...