Tests of death: respiratory, 181; cardiac and arterial, 181, 182; putrefactive, 183; _rigor mortis_, 185; cadaveric countenance, 187; clenched jaws, 187; diaphanous web of fingers, 187; Richardson’s enumeration of, 193; Hartmann on fallaciousness of, 194; official statements of, 195; _Lancet_ on fallaciousness of, 196; _British Medical Journal_ on same, 198-201; Wilder on same, 201; Gaubert on same, 201; expert _verificateurs_ of, 202; popular trust in, 203; Bavarian official directions for, 204-207. Thouret, Dr., his inference from opening of graves, 51, 228. Thieurey, Dr., his estimated number of live burials cited, 222. Thompson, Sir Henry, on defective death-certification, 240; advocates cremation to prevent live burial, 276. Thompson, Mr. W. Arnold, case of still-born child recovered, 345. Tidy, Dr. C. M., on progressive nature of death, 160; on causes of sudden death, 161; on still-born infants, 341. Tobacco a cause of sudden death, 163. Trance, definition and symptoms of, 21-23; Gairdner’s case of, 23-27; Madden’s cases of, 27-29; other cases of, 29, 30; prolonged cases of, 31; Hufeland on, 43; in a fakir at Jeypore, 44; at Lahore, 47; self-induced at Westminster Aquarium, 48; cases of, require caution (Pye-Smith), 175 (_footnote_); Milner on diagnosis of, from death, 186. _Truth_, relation in, of a case of unverified death, 115. Turnbull, Mr. Peveril, communicates to _Spectator_ case of exhumation alive, 111. UNDERTAKERS, testimony of, 57; their experience of dubious death, 118; their fear of premature interment, 156. _Undertakers’ and Funeral Directors’ Journal_, on risks of hasty burial, 171; on frequency of live burial, 226; on necessity for mortuaries, 295. _Union Medicale, La_, on premature burial, 247. United States of America, regulations in, for disposal of dead, 359. VALENTINE, Dr. Colin S., relates case of escape from burial, 97. Verification of deaths, in France, 246; in Brussels, 248; in Würtemburg, 249; in the United States, 252. Vesalius, Andreas, his case of live dissection, 329. Vienna, ordinances of, for inspection of dead, 355. Vigné, Dr. J. B., narrates a narrow escape, 66; testamentary directions to prevent his own live burial, 257. Vivisection of a criminal, 172. WADE, Sir Claude, eye-witness of trances in fakirs, 47. Wadia, Mr. Soabjee Dhunjeebhoy, 138. Waiting Mortuaries, Gaubert on, 309. Walker, Dr., of Dublin, his case, 338. Walker, Mr. G. A., on risks of premature burial, 215. Walters, Rev. W., on death-certification in Ireland, 241. Waterman, Dr. S., recoveries from apparent death in heart-disease, 176. _Wiener Medicinische Zeitung_ on a premature Jewish interment at Lemberg, 148. Welby, Mr. Horace, dread of live burial a prevalent one, 153.