Premature burial and how it may be prevented : with special reference to trance, catalepsy, and other forms of suspended animation / by William Tebb and Edward Perry Vollum.

  • William Tebb
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1896
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Credit: Premature burial and how it may be prevented : with special reference to trance, catalepsy, and other forms of suspended animation / by William Tebb and Edward Perry Vollum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Hawes (Dr.). On the duty of the relations of those who are in dangerous illness, and the hazard of hasty interment. A sermon preached in the Presbyterian Chapel of Lancaster in 1703, wherein it is clearly proved, from the attestation of unexceptionable witnesses, that many persons have been buried alive. Lancisi (Johannes M.). De subitaneis mortibus libri duo. Romae, 1707 ; Lucae, 1707 ; Lipsiae, 1709. WiLFROTH (Johannes Christianus). Dissertatio de resuscitatione semi- mortuorum medica. Halae, 1725. Ranft (Michael). Tractat von den Kauen und Schmatzen der Todten in Grabern, worin die wahre Beschaffenheit derer Hungarischen Vampyrs gezeight, etc. Leipzig, 1734. Beyschlag (Fr. Jac.). Sylloge variorum opusculorum. De hominum a morte resuscitatorum exemplis. Halae Sueviorum, 1727-31. WiNSLOW (Jacques Benigne), Professor of Anatomy at Paris. An mortis incertse signa minus incerta a chirurgicis quam ab aliis experijiientis. Paris, 1740. Dissertation. Dissertation sur 1' incertitude des signes de la mort, et 1' abus des enterremens et embaumemens precipites; traduite et commentee par Jacques Jean Bruhier. Paris, 1742. (With the Latin text.) Bruhier (Jacques Jean), d'Ablaincourt. Memoire sur la necessite d' un reglement general au sujet des enterremens et embaumemens—addition au inemoire presente au Roi. Paris, 1745-46. Dissertation sur 1' incertitude des signes de la mort, et I'abus des enterrements et embaumemens precipites. Second ed. Two vols. Paris, 1749. ;— The uncertainty of the signs of death and the danger of pre- cipitate interments and dissections. Second ed. London, 1751. [Bruhier, in his work Dissertations sur 1' incertitude des signes de la mort et I'abus des enterremens, produces accounts of one hundred and eighty-one cases, among which there are those of fifty-two persons buried alive, four dissected alive, fifty-three that awoke in their coffins before being buried, and seventy-two other cases of apparent death.] Anon. The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipi- tate interments and dissections demonstrated. Dublin, 1748.