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
Hartmann, Dr. Franz, his essay published at Boston, U.S., 9;
distinguishes trance from catalepsy, 32;
relates two cases of rescue from live burial fatally delayed, 108;
case of catalepsy revived, 122;
case of Orrendo’s body found beside the empty coffin, 122;
on predisposing causes of trance, 127;
relates case of resuscitation from spasms of the heart, 176;
on putrefaction the sole test of death, 194;
on frequency of live burial, 227;
case of premature dissection, 235;
two cases of escape from death after formal certification, 277;
on resuscitation, 320.
Haward, Dr. Edwin, case of failure of diaphanous test, 188.
Haweis, Rev. H. R., advocates cremation to prevent live burial, 278.
Hearing, sense of, in suspended animation, 335, 336, 337.
Heart, disease of, sudden apparent death in, 176.
Heart, stoppage of, as test of death, 181.
Hedley, Dr. W. S., on use of electricity as a restorative, 263.
Herachborg, Dr., relates case of a Jewess rescued from the
undertakers, 146, 362 (Hirschberg).
Heraclides of Pontus, on a disease marked by absence of breathing, 21.
Herz, Dr. Marcus, opposes hasty burial among the Jews, 146, 361.
Hibernation, instance of, in the jerboa, 40;
Braid on, in lower animals, 41;
Russell Fletcher on, in reptiles and fishes, 42.
Hibernation, so-called human, 43.
Hicks, Mr. A. Braxton, on lax certification of death, 253.
Hincks, Amelia, a case of narrow escape, 68-70.
Hindus, their motive for speedy disposal of dead, 132.
Historical cases, appendix of, 325.
Holmes, Mrs. Basil, on the extension of burial-grounds, 283.
Honigberger, Dr. J. M., his researches on trance in India, 50.
Hopps, Rev. J. Page, advocates cremation to prevent live burial, 281.
Hotels, hasty burials from, on the Continent, 152.
Howard, Col., of Co. Wicklow, his escape from live burial, 97.
Hufeland, Dr. C. W., on trance, 43;
narrates narrow escape from live burial, 66;
on risks and horrors of live burial, 221;
devised the Weimar mortuary, 286.
Humane Society, the Royal, cases from its reports, 337, 344, 345, 349;
literature relating to, 347, 367.
Hypodermic medicines, as restoratives or tests, 265.
INDIA, premature burial and cremation in, 129;
Mr. Billimoria on the risks of the same, 134;
soldiers in, not liable to risk of same, 136.
Infants, recovery of supposed dead, 342-345.
Influenza followed by trance, 30, 124.
Ireland, death-certification in, 241;
practice of burial in, 301, 359;
no mortuaries in, 302.
Irvine, Mr. Clarke, on popular trust in the signs of death, 203.
JACKSON, Dr., of Somerby, relates case of supposed death by
lightning-stroke, 192.
James, Mr. J. Brindley, on risks of live burial, 254.
Jaws, clenching of, as signs of death, 187.
Jebb, Dr. John, his graphic case of catalepsy, 35.
Jerboa, the, its hibernation, 40.
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