The gaunt ribs, with their parchment-like covering, were exposed, and the sunken, leaden-hued abdomen, with the long slit where the embalmer had left his mark; but the lower limbs were wrapt round with coarse yellow bandages.
"Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life"
Arthur Conan Doyle
It is the name of the embalmer, I take it.
"Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life"
Arthur Conan Doyle
You open the corpses, you go in and out of the house of the embalmer.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers