It is not like any that I know.

There does not seem to have been any opening cut for the withdrawing of the viscera and organs, which apparently remain intact within the body.

Then, again, there is no moisture in the flesh; but its place is supplied with something else, as though wax or stearine had been conveyed into the veins by some subtle process.

I wonder could it be possible that at that time they could have used paraffin.

It might have been, by some process that we know not, pumped into the veins, where it hardened!" Margaret, having thrown a white sheet over the Queen's body, asked us to bring it to her own room, where we laid it on her bed.