Conspirators' bodies

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(11-09-2015 05:07 AM)maharba Wrote:  Looking over my notes I had made, from uncited source,

"Dr.Brown and undertaker Frank Sands accompanied the body on the long train journey re-embalming the body several times en route."

And I think Wiki has an entry solely on the topic of Lincoln's body, and it may mention more of this (re-embalming). If I was a mortician and they told me of the logistics and I intended more chemicals as needed, I would leave brass, long insertion tubes in place at the outset, especially as might irrigate the head and face. Probably, then using very warm chemical solutions to redo and touch up.

Your opening quote about Dr. Brown is the exact same sentence that is in the Chicago Historical Society site that I listed in my first response.

Since embalming was a relatively new procedure at that time, how sophisticated were the instruments and chemicals (and techniques) that you allude to here? And, how easy would the procedures be to perform on a moving train?