Nusserwanje, Mr. Dadabhoy, on cases of restored animation in Parsees, 139. O’CONNELL, Daniel, his dread of being buried alive, 154. O’Rourke, Mr. John, on hurried embalming, 352. O’Neill, Dr. W., relates case of narrow escape, 78. Ogston, Prof. Francis, records probable case of premature dissection, 232. Ordinances. (See under “Regulations.”) Orfila, M., diaphanous test useless, 192. Orrendo, case of, at Kronstadt, 122. Oswald, Dr. John, on means of restoration to life, 266, 267. Ouseley, Rev. J. G., estimates ratio of live burials, 222. PARSEES, their mode of disposing of the dead, 136-142; their prejudice against persons restored to life, 139, 142. Patzki, Dr. J. H., his case of recovery by artificial respiration, 266. Pembroke, William, Earl of, embalmed, 230. Perspiration a sign of revival, 28, 363. Petitions for prevention of premature burial, 225. Phelps, Lieut.-Gen. A., advocates cremation to prevent live burial, 278. Plato, his reason for advising tardy disposal of dead, 144, 331; relates a case of revival, 325. Pliny gives instances of the dead restored, 326. Plutarch, case of revival cited from, 325. Prasad, Mr. Durga, relates escape from burning alive, 132. Pratt, Dr. Samuel B., on _rigor mortis_, 185. Predisposition to trance, from nervous exhaustion, 120; in women, 121; habitual, 122; from cold, 123; after influenza, 30, 124; from narcotics, 125; in cholera, 126; in various morbid states, 127. Pregnancy, apparent death during, 66. Probability of life, recent rise in, 319; how same might be further raised, 319. Prevention, means of, various, 258; by exciting the skin, 258-261; by auscultation, 261; by electricity, 262-265; by hypodermic injection, 265; by artificial respiration, 266; summary of, in _All the Year Round_, 268-273; prizes for discovery of, 273. (See also under “Tests of death.”) _Prix Dusgate_, 274, 377. _Prix Manni_, 274, 374. _Prix d’Ourches_, 274, 376. Prize by the Brussels Royal Academy, 366. Publisher, a well-known, relates to the author a case of narrow escape, 88. Putrefaction, the one safe test of death, Dr. Chew on, 183; Dr. Fagge on, 183; _Medical Examiner_ on, 183; Dr. Gannal on, 185. Pye-Smith, Dr. P. H., on caution to be used in cases of trance, 175 (_footnote_). QUENSTEDT on dormancy of vital principle, 325. Quintilian gives reason for tardy burial by the Romans, 144. RACHEL, Mlle. (actress), said to have been prematurely embalmed, 230. Recommendations of the authors, 323.