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
Taylor, Joseph
Burial, Premature; Funeral rites and ceremonies
Cicero, his observations concerning the Dead, 1
Coach office Director, restored to life after being supposed dead, 19
Civile, Francis. Remarkable story of, 25
Cardinal Espinolæ, ditto, 23
Cornwall, Lady there, ditto, 70
Colchester, a child there, nearly buried alive, 74
Churches, observations on the pernicious custom of burying there, 96
Ditto, ditto, ditto, 98
Ditto, ditto, ditto, 104
Contagion from opening new Graves, how to prevent, 107
Cleopatra’s Tomb, account of, 126
Cedrenus, his description of a wonderful Lamp, 128
Constantine Chlorus, burning Lamp found in his tomb, ib.
Constantine and Irene, remarkable sepulchre found in their time, 147
Cœciliæ, church of, body found there, buried upwards of 300 years, ib.
D.
Dead bodies improperly treated, 10 to 18
Death, difficulty of distinguishing when persons are really so, 78
Dead, various methods of burying by different Nations, 83
Dead bodies, how to preserve safe in their graves, 120
Dr. Parsons extraordinary story, 121
Dunfermline Church, body of a young Man found there, 144
Dominick, St. Church of, remarkable body found there, 149
E.
Egyptians particularly careful of their dead, 2
England, people there keep their dead several days before burial, 9
Espinola, Cardinal, not dead when about to be dissected, 23
Elizabeth a Servant, not dead after long hanging, and ill treatment,
64
Egyptians embalm their dead, 87
Eastern Countries, practice of burying their dead, 117
Edessa, remarkable Lamp found there, 128
F.
Fever patients ought to be particularly looked after before laid out
as dead, 80
France, King of, prohibits burying in churches, 98
Female, extraordinary resolve of, 119
G.
Greeks, great veneration of, for their dead, 2
Geneva, people appointed there to inspect the dead, 9
Genoa, dead people there, dressed according to their rank, ib.
Godfrey, the Honourable Mrs. remarkable trance of, 43
Green, Anne, remarkable story of, 62
Glover, Mr. story related by, of a person restored to life after
hanging, 73
Greeks, old, singular method of burial, 85
Graves, danger of opening too soon, 107
Grave, opened too soon in Aberdeen, fatal consequence attending, 115
Grey, Thomas, Marquis of Dorset, corpse found after seventy years
burial, 136
Guavnerius, Alexander, curious account of a subterranean cavern by,
146
H.
Hawe’s, Dr., extract from his addresses to the public, 80
Hale, Sir Matthew, his observations on burying in churches, 98
Hall, Bishop, extract from his Sermon on church burials, 99
Hackney, Alice, her body found after 175 years interment, 136
I.
Interment, premature, great danger of, 1
Interesting account from an Italian paper, 145
J.
Jews, their manner of burying their dead, 9
Janin, Monsieur, story of a child apparently dead, recovered by, 71
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