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.6 (June 25, 1894) 4–5.George Bayles men-tions desiccation in “Disposal of the Dead,” Sanitarian 40.3 (June 1874) 101;that alternative was later propounded in The New Mausoleum and endorsed bythe editor of Sanitarian.“Electrical Cremation,” a reprint of an article origi-nally published in Electrician, appears in MC 1.10 (October 1886) 159.“Ce-mentation” is the subject of an article in MC 2.3 (March 1887) 44–45.Electro-plating corpses is the matter at hand in “Metallic Burial,” The Sanitary Era 1.27(May 1, 1887) 256; “Sanitary Burial,” The Sanitary Era 1.17 (December 1,1886) 131; and “The Body after Death,” Modern Cemetery 1.5 (July 1891)59–60.16.George Bayles, “Disposal of the Dead,” Sanitarian 40.3 (June 1874) 101.17.“Disposal of the Dead,” MC 1.1 (January 1886) 9.18.Thompson is quoted in John D.Beugless, “Incineration,” Princeton Re-view 59.2 (September 1883) 145.The rejoinder appears in Samuel Bernstein,“Cremation a Sanitary Reform,” MC 4.2 (April 1889) 21.Publishing by sani-tarians on cremation roughly tracked public concerns about cholera, the cen-tury’s most-feared disease.In the mid-1870s, when the cremation movement gotunderway, the Sanitarian called cholera the nation’s “all-absorbing topic” andthe New York Times was editorializing about “Cholera Panics!” (Duffy, A His-tory of Public Health in New York City, 1866–1966, 144).In the mid-1880s,when writing on cremation reached its height, cholera was again a major topicof concern.Interest in cremation did not wane until shortly after the century’slast great cholera scare in 1892.19.C.N.Peirce, Sanitary Disposal of the Dead ([Philadelphia]: PhiladelphiaCremation Society, [1891]) 10.20.George Bayles, “Disposal of the Dead,” Sanitarian 2.3 (June 1874) 105;“Cremation,” Leslie’s (April 25, 1874) front page, 103.21.Hugo Erichsen, The Cremation of the Dead (Detroit: D.O.Haynes,1887) 83–85, 77; Cobb, Earth-Burial and Cremation, 88.22.Peirce, Sanitary Disposal of the Dead, 27; Erichsen, The Cremation ofthe Dead, 77; Cobb, Earth-Burial and Cremation, 62; John D.Beugless, “In-cineration,” Princeton Review 59.2 (September 1883) 148; John O.Marble,Cremation in Its Sanitary Aspects: The Torch versus the Spade (Boston: Clapp,1885) 7.For a far more careful treatment of this issue, see Caroline WalkerBynum’s The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 (NewYork: Columbia University Press, 1995) esp.1–17.23.“The Cemetery Problem,” Urn 1: 3 (April 1892) 1; Cobb, Earth-Burialand Cremation, 44; Dr.John Marble, quoted in Samuel Bernstein, “Cremation aSanitary Reform,” MC 4.2 (April 1889) 18; “Homeopathists Favor Cremation,”Urn (October 1892) 6; “Cremation and Sanitation,” in ES, 33; Dr.ThomasWildes, letter to the editor, in “Editor’s Retort,” Urn 3.9 (September 1894) 4.Notes to Pages 55–6023124.F.Julius LeMoyne, Cremation: An Argument to Prove That CremationIs Preferable to Inhumation of Dead Bodies (Pittsburgh: E.W.Lightner, 1878)8, 9; W.H.Curtis, The Disposal of the Dead (Cambridge: Riverside Press,1882) 11.25.John D.Beugless, “Cremation as a Safeguard against Epidemics,” Sani-tarian 180 (November 1884) 445.Other articles framed pleas for cremation interms of the dangers of infectious diseases.See J.Heber Smith, “The Desirabil-ity of Disposing of Infected Bodies by Cremation,” paper read before the Bos-ton Homoeopathic Medical Society (January 2, 1896), in JCL Pamphlets.26.Lew Slusser, “Cremation as a Sanitary and Economic Measure,” Sani-tarian 222 (May 1888) 453; D.M.Skinner, “A Plea for Cremation,” M&SR 61(October 5, 1889) 369.27.“Spring Cleaning,” Urn 2.3 (April 25, 1893) 1–2; “Keep the DestroyerOut,” Urn 2.3 (April 25, 1893) 5.René Girard presents a widely-discussed in-terpretation of the connection between religion and violence in his Violence andthe Sacred, trans.Patrick Gregory (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,1977).28.John D.Beugless, “Cremation as a Safeguard Against Epidemics,” San-itarian 180 (November 1884) 444–46; Robert Newman, “Cremation and ItsImportance in Cholera,” Sanitarian 281 (April 1893) 291–92.29.“The Future of Cremation,” Medical Record 20 (January 9, 1886) 46;“A Plan to Cremate Paupers,” Tribune (February 13, 1888) 8; “Cremation,”Tribune (Feb 12, 1880) 4.In Cremation and Burial: An Examination of TheirRelative Advantages (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1875) Dr.J.F.A.Adams reportsthat his study yielded 133 Massachusetts respondents.Among them, 36 statedthat they “approve,” 13 that they “approve in cities,” and 11 that they “dis-approve.” Sixty-five expressed no opinion, and a total of 8 cast their lot witheither “embalming,” “chemical disintegration,” or “encasing in Portland ce-ment” (302).The other data comes from the pages of the M&SR (December 21,1889 through February 15, 1890).See also the letters of March 15 and April12, 1890.The reporters did not tabulate their results.My readings of the re-sponses finds 97 unequivocally pro-cremation, 25 clearly anti-cremation, and21 straddling the fence
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