Dr. Benjamin F. Lyford demonstrates the techniques of Civil War era field embalming for audiences of all ages.

Jon Austin, portraying Benjamin Franklin Lyford, MD, of Washington City, DC, presents a thirty minute lecture and demonstration of field embalming that was popularized during the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865. Discussion topics include the confirmation of death, physical changes in the dead, chemistry, period medicine, and a demonstration of arterial injection. This presentation offers insight into what became the modern funeral profession presented by a recognized authority on the subject.