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
_Manchester Criterion_ on revivals after sudden death, 178.
Manning, Rev. Owen, case of, 338.
Martineau, Harriet, provision of her will against risk of live burial,
154.
Marylebone, case of recovery in the mortuary of, 9, 298, 315.
Mason, Mr. R. B., of Nuneaton, authenticates case of narrow escape,
69.
Mayo, Dr. Herbert, on trance, 22;
on states predisposing to same, 127.
_Médécins verificateurs_, their duties perfunctorily discharged, 246.
_Medical Examiner_ on putrefactive test, 183.
_Medical Times_ on hospital mortuaries, 299.
_Medical Times and Gazette_ on Cardinal Donnet’s cases of live burial,
71;
on vivisection of a criminal, 172.
Medicine, profession of, sceptical as to death-trance and live burial,
113;
a new sphere of work for, 218;
its overcrowded state, 219 (_footnote_).
Mendelssohn, Moses, writes against early burial, 361.
Meyerbeer, his dread of being buried alive, 54.
Milner, Dr. Ebenezer, on appearances of death in trance, 186;
on _rigor mortis_, 186.
Misson, M. Max, his opinion on frequency of live burial, 222;
instances cited by, 326.
Mody, Ervad Jivanji, his explanation of the “Sagdeed” at Parsee
funerals, 138;
on the use of the chain at the Towers of Silence, 138.
Molloy, J. F., alleges trance in B. Disraeli, 23.
Monteverdi, M., his test of death, 193.
Moore, Dr. G., on so-called human hibernation, 43.
Mortuaries, an illustration of their use, 95;
waiting, should be established in all sanitary districts, 285;
movement in favour of, began in France, 286;
first executed in Germany, 286;
new and sumptuous example of, at Munich, 289;
called for in London in 1847 by R. Brandon, 289-293;
as now existing in London, 295-298;
only one case of resuscitation reported from same, 298;
suggestions for their improvement and extension, 298, 303;
_Medical Times_ on those of hospitals, 299;
as now existing in provincial towns, 300;
want of, in Ireland, 301-303;
those of Brussels, 305;
of Paris, 305;
of Berlin, 306;
of Vienna, 306;
of Stockholm, 307;
that of Weimar, 307;
suggested joint-stock company for, in Paris, 308;
utility of, 309.
Moscow, burial customs at, 358.
Munich, new sumptuous mortuary at, 289;
utility of the mortuary at, 309;
ordinances of, for ascertaining death, 356.
NECKER, Madam, her practical suggestions to prevent live burial, 286.
Needle test of death, 194.
Netherlands, the, burial laws of, 353.
Newsholme, Dr. A., on unregistered still-births, 346.
Newspaper cases, of trance, 30, 31;
of sudden death, 164-170;
some head-lines from, 318.
_Nonna, La_, form of trance following influenza, 30, 124.
Nowroji, Mr. Ardeshar, on premature exposure of the dead among
Parsees, 138.
Number, probable, of live burials, 220.
Nuneaton, authentic case at, of narrow escape, 67.
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