Whiter, Rev. Walter, advice as to treatment of the dead, 218. Whitney, Constance, her tomb in Cripplegate Church, 338. Widgen, Mrs., recovers many still-born at lying-in hospital, 344. Wilder, Dr. Alex., brings subject before State Legislature, N.Y., 19; on predisposition to trance, 120; on the causes of sudden death, 163; on risks of premature burial in sudden deaths, 178; on fallacious signs of death, 201; advocates cremation to prevent live burial, 280. Winslow, Dr. Jacques B., a pioneer in the prevention of live burial, 257; on signs of death, 333, 334. Wunderbar, R. J., on the origin of, and authority for, early burial among the Jews, 360. Würtemburg, official directions of, for ascertaining real death, 195, 249-251; case of escape from premature interment in, 251; regulations of, recommended for imitation, 255, 256. YATES, Edmund, bequeaths fee to surgeon to ensure that he was not buried alive, 154. _Hay Nisbet & Co., Printers, 16 St. Enoch Square, Glasgow, and 25 Bouverie Street, London, E. C._ FOOTNOTES: [1] “The Recovery of the Apparently Dead,” by Charles Kite, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons in London, and Surgeon at Gravesend in Kent. London, 1788. [2] “Histoire de la Médecine,” La Haye, 1729, p. 333. [3] “Linnæan Transactions,” 1797, vol. iv., p. 155. “An Account of the Jumping Mouse of Canada--_Dipus Canadensis_.” [4] Archives gén de Med., 1827, xiv., p. 105. [5] The case referred to, being attended with considerable doubt, is omitted. [6] _Evening News_, Nottingham, January 10, 1896. [7] _Health_, May 21, 1886, edited by Dr. Andrew Wilson, pp. 120-1. After relating other cases, Surgeon Curran continues:--“I have myself personally seen or heard on the spot of three such cases--cases that in other hands or in other localities might have passed as dead, were they not buried as such accordingly.” [8] For the antiquity of the Jewish practice of early burial, see note in Appendix. [9] Dr. A. B. Granville, “Sudden Death,” p. 278. [10] Ibid., p. 278. [11] Ibid., p. 279. [12] Tidy, “Legal Medicine,” part i., pp. 279-280. [13] In the 3rd ed., by Dr. Pye Smith, the following occurs at p. 817 of vol. i., under “Trance”:--“These are the cases which have led to the popular belief that death is sometimes only apparent, and that there may be a danger of persons being buried alive; and it cannot be denied that a patient in such a condition might easily be allowed to die by careless or ignorant attendants, or might be buried before death.” [14] _Bulletin Therap. Méd._, tome xxvii., p. 371. [15] “Premature Burial: An Examination into the Occult Causes of Apparent Death, Trance, and Catalepsy.” By Franz Hartmann, M.D. Second Edition. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. (One Shilling).