The urgent necessity there is to inhume at once these dead bodies, the most active agents in diffusing the contagion, is equally the drift of this observation.
"On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment"
Honoré Bourguignon
Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain; inhume the natives in their native plain, The rest in ships are wafted o'er the main.
"The Odyssey of Homer"
Homer, translated by Alexander Pope