An address to the public [on premature death and interment] / [William Hawes].
- William Hawes
- Date:
- [1778?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An address to the public [on premature death and interment] / [William Hawes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ADDRESS, ©V. A S the fol lowing add refs relates to afubjed in \ which every individual is intereiled, the writer willies to render the knowledge of it as general as polfible, and for that reafon has thought proper to publifh it. The cuftom of laying out the bodies of the per- fons fuppofed to be dead, as foon as refpiratiori eeafes, and the interment of them before the iigns of putrefadion appear, has been frequently oppofed by men of learning and humanity in this and other countries. Monf. Bruhier, in par¬ ticular, a phyfician of great eminence in Paris, published a piece, about thirty years ago, in titled, “ The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death in which he dearly proved, from the tellimonies of various authors, and the attentions of unexcep¬ tionable witnelTes, that many perfons who have been buried alive, and were providentially dif- covered in that ibate, had been refeued from the grave, and enjoyed the pleafures of fociety for fevera] years after. But notwithflanding the numerous and well- authenticated fads of this kind, the cuftorn above-mentioned remains in full force. As loon A z as](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30791376_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
