Premature Burial and How It May Be PreventedTebb, William
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Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented
Tebb, William
Burial, Premature
Catalepsy, definition and symptoms of, 32-34;
cases of, by Good, 34;
Jebb, 35;
Dr. King Chambers, 35;
Paris correspondent of _Lancet_, 37;
Braid, 37;
at Broadwey in 1895, 38;
Gowers on predisposition to, 120;
case of revival on eve of burial, 122;
Dr. Milner on, 186.
Cavendish, Miss Ada, provision in her will against risk of live
burial, 154.
Certificates of death, laxity of, 11, 241;
prematurely given, 242;
worthless or wanting, 243;
directions for filling up, 242;
in France, 246-248;
in Brussels, 248;
in Würtemburg, 249;
in Dover, New Hampshire, 252;
Mr. A. Braxton Hicks on, 253;
Mr. Brindley James on, 254;
_Daily Chronicle_ on, 255;
a German resident on the Würtemburg practice in, 255.
Ceylon, risks of premature disposal of dead in, 132, 133.
Chambers, Dr. T. King, relates and cites cases of catalepsy, 35.
Chantourelle, Dr., raises debate on premature burial at Paris Academy
of Medicine, 51.
Chew, Dr. Roger S., relates cases of live burial, 60-63;
his own case of escape from same, 89;
other cases of escape from same, 90-94;
case of chloroformed girl buried as dead, 125;
on cholera collapse mistaken for death, 126;
on safety of soldiers in India from live burial, 136;
on putrefactive test, 183;
on _rigor mortis_, 185;
on frequency of live burial, 227;
on auscultation sounds after death, 261.
Chippendale, Mr. J., on _post-mortem_ sweating, 29.
Chloral, supposed death from, 192.
Chloroform, effects of simulating death, 125.
Cholera, special risk of live burial in cases of, 92, 95, 101, 126,
149.
Chri, Mr. Vira Raghava, describes disposal of dead at Madras, 131.
Chunder Sen, Mr., relates case of trance in a fakir, 44.
Coffin, sounds from the, 106, 107.
Colerus, on apparent death, 330.
Collins, Dr. W. J., advises the providing of mortuaries, 309.
Cologne, old instances of revival at, 326, 327.
Colombo, a Catholic priest of, subject to death-trances, 130.
Conclamation, practice of, by the Caribs, 331;
in antiquity, 331, 332;
in Russia, 332;
in the case of the Widow of Nain’s son, 332.
Conclusions, summary of, 321.
Constantinople, risks of live burial at, 147.
Cooper, Mr. M., surgeon, on apparent deaths, 17;
relates case of Madam Blunden, 51;
case at Toulouse of escape from live burial, 145;
condemns hasty burial, 171.
Cork, case of revival from apparent death in a child at, 318.
Creighton, Dr. C., his History of Epidemics cited, 282.
Cremation, at Calcutta, 129;
among Brahmins at Madras, 131;
at Benares, 131;
as a preventive of premature burial, 274-278;
approved on general grounds, 282.
Crowe, Mrs., cases related by, 336.
Curran, Dr. W., brigade-surgeon, his papers in _Health_ on Burial
Alive, 103;
relates case of premature dissection, 236.
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