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
Joseph the Second, prohibits burials in churches, 118
K.
Kiovia, City of, subterranean burying places near, 146
L.
Lady buried alive in Russia, 40
Lamps, ever-burning ones of the Ancients, 121 to 135
M.
Mercier, Monsieur, very remarkable story related by, 31
Mold Church, in Flintshire, singular epitaph there, 98
Montpelier, remarkable circumstance that happened there, 104
Maximus, Olybius, curious Lamp made by, 131
Mary-at-Hill, St., body found there after 175 years burial, 136
Magnus, Albertus, his body found after 200 years interment, 139
Methods of embalming, 151
N.
Navier, Monsieur, observations by, on the danger of burying in
churches, 107
Nevis, Island of, wonderful burning Lamp found there, 129
O.
Olybius, Maximus, curious Lamp made by, 131
P.
Plato, attention by him, recommended to the dead, 1
Primitive church, washed and anointed their dead, 8
Pallas, remarkable burning Lamp of, 129
Philosophical transactions, body found in a vault, described therein,
142
Pausanius, body mentioned by him, found after 248 years interment,
150
R.
Romans, great attention paid by them to their dead, 3, 4 and 5
Rouen, siege of, remarkable circumstance happened there, 25
Resuscitation, very extraordinary one, in Sweden, 35
Russia, young lady buried alive there, 40
Retchmuth Adoleh, buried alive, at Cologne, 51
Reanimation of a female in Paris, supposed to be dead, 68
Romans, method of burying their dead, 88
Remarkable fact of Sumovin Feodose, 94
Rosicrucian Lamp, story of, 134
Rome, remarkable coffin and curiosities found there, 137
S.
Syrians, their method of embalming, 2
Spain, method of dressing the dead there, 9
Syncope, sometimes mistaken for death, 21
Schmid, Dr. John, story related by, ib.
Syncope, remarkable story of a person having fallen into one, 22
Scroop, Sir Gervase, story of, related by Dr. Fuller, 29
Sweden, remarkable occurrence there, 35
Spain, lady there, returns to life under the hands of the anatomist,
59
Sumovin Feodose, remarkable story of, 94
Scripture, quotations from, against burying in churches, 99
Story, remarkable, related by Dr. Parsons, 121
Solomon, King, his servant’s tomb, 126
Sicilian convent, remarkable burial place there, 140
Staverton church, curious particulars of a body found in a vault
there, 142
T.
Turks, scrupulously particular in examining the dead, 7
Trance, remarkable one, of the Honourable Mrs. Godfrey, 43
Tatoreidie, after being laid in a coffin for dead, returns to life, 61
Tissot, Dr. story related by him of a girl returning to life, after
being long in the water, 68
Tossach, Mr. case related by, of a Man recovering, after apparent
death, 69
Tomb of King Edward the First, interesting particulars of opening, 91
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