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
Duncan, Dr. Ebenezer, statistics of Glasgow burials, 284.
Duration of death-counterfeits, 208;
statistics of, 209;
experiments on, 210, 211;
in case of Franciscan monk, 211;
Köppen’s illustrations of, 212-214.
ELECTRICITY as a restorative agent, 262-265.
Elliotson, Dr., case related by, 334.
Embalming, makes death certain, 229;
cases of premature, 230, 231;
case of escape from same, 231;
authority of Home Secretary advised for, 232;
hasty, in the United States, 351.
Empedocles, his recovery of woman supposed dead, 330.
Escape from dissection at Lille, 311.
Escape from live burial, 64;
case of Sir W. Lindsay, 64;
case related by Vigné, 66;
case of professor’s wife at Tübingen, 66;
case at Coventry in 1858, 67-70;
case at St. Agnan de Cenuières, 71;
cases related by Cardinal Donnet, 71-74;
Dr. Brewer on, 75;
case at Cleveland, Ohio, 76;
two cases of, related by Dr. M. S. Tanner, 76;
case by Dr. W. O’Neill, of Lincoln, 77;
case at Clinton, Ky., 78;
at Memphis, Tenn., 79;
at Burham, Rochester, 80;
at St. Leonards, 80;
case related by Dr. F. A. Floyer, 81;
at Penn Station, U.S., 83;
at Vagueray, Lyons, 83;
at Limoges, 84;
at St. Louis, 84;
at Lagos, 84;
at Militsch, Silesia, 85;
at Sprakers, Rondout, N.Y., 85;
at Heap Bridge, Heywood, 86;
in the daughter of a physician, 87;
in a case related to the author, 88;
Dr. R. S. Chew’s personal experience of, 89;
in cases communicated by him, 90-96;
in the cases of two Irish persons of rank, 96;
in case related by Dr. Colin Valentine, 97;
in case related by Dr. A. Stephenson, 97;
in the case of the Metropolitan of Lesbos, 98;
in cases of small-pox, 99;
in cases related by Rev. Harry Jones, 100;
in case at St. Paul’s, Belchamp, near Clare, 101;
in case at Neufchâtel, 102;
in case at Alleghany, 103;
in the case of the late Madam Blavatsky, 104;
in a case at Toulouse, 145;
in a case in Würtemburg, 251;
in case related by Graves, 254;
in two cases certified dead by several physicians, 277;
in case at Lille, 311;
in the Munich mortuary, 311;
in a mortuary at Berlin, 313;
in the Frankfort mortuary, 313;
in a Brussels mortuary, 314;
in a Cassel mortuary, 314;
in a Lille mortuary, 314;
in a Buffalo mortuary, 315;
in the Marylebone mortuary, 315.
Escapes from being cremated alive in India, 132-135.
Exhumation, law of, in England, 106;
cases of, too late for rescue, 106-110;
case of, in time to save life, 111.
FABRI, William, condemns hasty burial, 171.
Fagge, Dr. Hilton, on risk of live burial in cases of sudden death,
175;
on putrefaction as the only certain sign of death, 183.
Fakirs, cases of trance in, 44-48;
experiment with, related by Hartmann, 49.
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