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When did embalming start?

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In 1846, Dr. Ellerslie Wallace, a demonstrator in anatomy at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, developed a zinc chloride-based compound for the preservation of dead flesh. That start of what is modern day embalming got its big start during Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was enbalmed as were some 4000 soldiers. In 1882 first school for embalming started in Cincinnati, Oh.

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