The abrupt cessation of all vital bodily functions, manifested by the permanent loss of total cerebral, respiratory, and cardiovascular functions.
    

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The death of Sapphira (?). Pen and ink drawing after a hypothetical drawing by Rembrandt van Rijn and one of his students.

The death of Ananias: an elderly bearded man falling to the ground before a large crowd of onlookers. Pen and ink drawing attributed to F. Montelatici (Cecco Bravo).

De subitaneis mortibus libri duo / [Giovanni Maria Lancisi].

The death of Sapphira. Engraving by J. Pesne, ca. 1703, after N. Poussin.

Death and sudden death / by P. Brouardel. Translated by F. Lucas Benham.

Enquiry into sudden death in infancy.

Le morti improvvise di G. M. Lancisi / [Giovanni Maria Lancisi].

De la mort rapide par le traumatisme chez les sujets atteints de néoplasmes profonds / par A. Cerné.

Medico-legal examination of two cases of sudden death from wounds / by Alexander Watson.

Death, Sudden

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Death and sudden death / by P. Brouardel. Translated by F. Lucas Benham.

Enquiry into sudden death in infancy.

Le morti improvvise di G. M. Lancisi / [Giovanni Maria Lancisi].

De la mort rapide par le traumatisme chez les sujets atteints de néoplasmes profonds / par A. Cerné.

Medico-legal examination of two cases of sudden death from wounds / by Alexander Watson.