Hence, on the following day, I went to the British Museum library and consulted the most recent works on the subject; and exceedingly interesting they were, as showing the remarkable improvements that modern knowledge had effected in this ancient art.

I need not trouble you with details that are familiar to you.

The process that I selected as the simplest for a beginner was that of formalin injection, and I went straight from the Museum to purchase the necessary materials.

I did not, however, buy an embalming syringe: the book stated that an ordinary anatomical injecting syringe would answer the purpose, and I thought it a more discreet purchase.
"I fear that I bungled the injection terribly, although I had carefully studied the plates in a treatise on anatomy--Gray's, I think.

However, if my methods were clumsy, they were quite effectual.