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The danger of premature interment : $b Proved from many remarkable instances of people who have recovered after being laid out for dead, and of others entombed alive, for want of being properly examined prior to intermentTaylor, Joseph

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The danger of premature interment : $b Proved from many remarkable instances of people who have recovered after being laid out for dead, and of others entombed alive, for want of being properly examined prior to interment

Name: The danger of premature interment : $b Proved from many remarkable instances of people who have recovered after being laid out for dead, and of others entombed alive, for want of being properly examined prior to interment
Author: Taylor, Joseph

Taylor, Joseph

Burial, Premature; Funeral rites and ceremonies

THE

                                 DANGER

                                   OF

                          Premature Interment.

                     Plummer and Brewis, Printers,
                         Love-Lane, Eastcheap.

                            [Illustration:

                   _H. Corbould del._ _Hopwood sc._

 _The body of Tulliolæ, the daughter of Cicero, discovered entire and
        uncorrupted, in a Sepulchre, 1500 Years after Burial._

                           _Vide Page 127._

          _Publish’d by W. Simpkin & R. Marshall Decʳ 1815._]

                                  THE
                                 DANGER
                                   OF
                         _Premature Interment_,

                            PROVED FROM MANY

                          REMARKABLE INSTANCES

      Of People who have recovered after being laid out for dead,
            and of others entombed alive, for want of being
                 properly examined prior to Interment.

                         Also a Description of

          The Manner the ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, and other NATIONS,
                 _Preserved and venerated their Dead_,

                     And a curious Account of their
                     SEPULCHRAL EVER BURNING LAMPS
                                  And
                              Mausoleums.

       Likewise the pernicious effects of burying in the body of
            Churches, and confined Church Yards pointed out,
               whereby many valuable lives have been lost
                   to the Public, and their Friends.

                  _SELECTED FROM HISTORICAL RECORDS._

                                   BY
                             JOSEPH TAYLOR.

    “_To revive nailed up in a Coffin! A return of Life in Darkness,
       Distraction, and Despair! The Brain can scarce sustain the
                 reflection, in our coolest moments._”

                               _LONDON_:
                PRINTED FOR W. SIMPKIN AND R. MARSHALL,
                  _Stationers Court, Ludgate-Street_.

                                 1816.

                             INTRODUCTION.

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The danger of premature interment : $b Proved from many remarkable instances of people who have recovered after being laid out for dead, and of others entombed alive, for want of being properly examined prior to interment

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