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
Date:
1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    385/412 (page 377)
    Belval (Th.). Les maisons mortuaires. Paris, 1877. Fritz-Andre ( ). Du danger des inhumations precipitees. Brux- elles, 1879. [The Prix Dusgate was founded by a decree of November 27, 1874, authorising the Academic des Sciences of Paris to accept the legacy of M. Dusgate of a quinquennial prize of 2,500 francs for the best work on the diagnostic signs of death and on the means of preventing premature burial. The essays of the first competition were received on June i, 1880, and on March 14, 1881, the prize was divided among the three following com- petitors. In 1885 the prize was not awarded.] Onimus (E. N. J.). Modification de I'excitabilite des nerfs et des muscles apres la mort. (Published.) Peyrand (H.). De la determination de la mort reelle par le caustique de Vienne. Le Bon (G. ). Recherches experimentales sur les signes diagnostiques de la mort et sur les moyens de prevenir les inhumations precipitees. (A temperature of 25° C. on a thermometer kept in the mouth for a quarter of an hour.) Also, Article on Premature Interment in Monit. scient., viii. Paris. Allen (F. D.), Remarks on the dangers and duties of sepulture, or se- curity for the living with respect and repose of the dead. Boston, 1873. Burdett (H. C.). The necessity and importance of mortuaries for towns and villages, with suggestions for their establishment and manage- ment. London, 1880. Fletcher (Moore Russell). One thousand persons buried alive by their best friends. A treatise on suspended animation, with directions for restoration. Boston, 1890. A Hygienic Physician. Earth to earth burial and cremation by fire [includes cases of premature burial]. London, 1890. Hernandez (Maxime F.E.M.). Contribution a I'etude de la mort appar- ente. Bordeaux, 1893. Lignieres (Dr. D. De). Ne pas etre enterre vivant. Paris, 1893. Traitement physiologique de la mort apparente. Series of twenty-five papers in La Tribune Medicale, Paris, 1894, vol. xxvi., 2 ser. Giles (Alfred E) ). Funerals, suspended animation, premature burials, Boston, 1895.