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...done well for a glass furnace. Thermometer here made desperate efforts to get out of the case. I was just about saying, "I shall put off my bath till another day," when my guide came in and sadly led the way to a little room in which was a slab. Obeying signs, I stretched myself out and felt ready for dissection. Very much like dissection was the process that followed. First he carelessly sprinkled over me a few handfuls of boiling water, and then, raising his hand, he brought it down "so as to make the blood circulate." This...
...Epitaph on a slab from the Catacombs, now in possession of the Redwood Library at Newport...
...think my new companion was a Turk; at least, he spoke English with only a slight brogue. He laid me on a marble slab. I imagined myself a dead and unknown body waiting in the "Morgue" for identification, but was soon reminded that I could still experience sensation by the ill-bred behavior of my foreign friend. He assaulted me with a combination of blows, rubs, hot and cold water, and soap, and wound up by asking me if I wanted a "plunge." Passing over his insolent conduct in silence, I requested him to produce his "plunge." I descended...