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
“‘The next case that occurred to me was at Bordeaux. A young lady, who
bore one of the most distinguished names in the Department, had passed
through what was supposed the last agony, and, as apparently all was
over, the father and mother were torn away from the heartrending
spectacle. As God willed it, I happened to pass the door of the house
at the moment, when it occurred to me to call and inquire how the
young lady was going on. When I entered the room, the nurse, finding
the body breathless, was in the act of covering the face, and, indeed,
there was every appearance that life had departed. Somehow or other,
it did not seem to me so certain as to the bystanders. I lady not to
give up all hope--that I was come to cure her, and that I was about
to pray by her side. “You do not see me,” I said, “but you hear what
I am saying.” My presentiments were not unfounded. The word of hope I
uttered reached her ear and effected a marvellous change, or, rather,
called back the life that was departing. The young girl survived; she
is now a wife, and mother of children, and this day is the happiness
of two most respectable families.’
“The Archbishop mentioned another instance of a similar revival in a
town in Hungary during the cholera of 1831, which he heard that day
from one of his colleagues of the Senate, as they were mounting the
staircase. But the last related is so interesting, and made such a
sensation, that it deserves to be repeated in his own words:--
[CARDINAL DONNET’S EXPERIENCE.]
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