ely read before the United Service: application is one of its principal characteristics. their instance, the Surgeon-general of the United As soon as a body begins to decompose, a gas is Institution, London, by Mr. S. Barrass, on armor- States Army witnessed an experiment under his es- evolved… … overcome by the produc- ship built of mixed ma- tion of this burial-case or terials, differing widely coffin. By means of a composition applied as an interior lining, he has rendered the wood suf- One point con- its adoption for army purposes. ficiently impervious to retain the fluids arising from…
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