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Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented

Chapter 1: PREMATURE BURIAL
By William Tebb
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A survey of death-counterfeits and measures to prevent accidental interment. The authors compile medical descriptions of trance, catalepsy, and suspended animation; collect documented narrow escapes and probable cases; analyse predisposing conditions and signs of death; discuss funeral formalities, embalming, dissection, certification, and burial customs including cremation and waiting mortuaries; review treatment and resuscitation of the apparently dead, including infants and the drowned; and conclude with practical legal and procedural recommendations, historical appendices, and an extensive bibliography aimed at reducing hasty burials and guiding legislative reform.

PREMATURE BURIAL,

AND

HOW IT MAY BE PREVENTED.

 

PREMATURE BURIAL

AND

HOW IT MAY BE PREVENTED

WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TRANCE, CATALEPSY, AND
OTHER FORMS OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION

BY

WILLIAM TEBB, F.R.G.S.

Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Medical Sciences, Palermo;
Author of “The Recrudescence of Leprosy and its Causation”

AND

Col. EDWARD PERRY VOLLUM, M.D.

Late Medical Inspector, U.S. Army; Corresponding Member of the
New York Academy of Sciences

LONDON
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., LIM.
1896

“What if in the tomb I awake!”—Romeo and Juliet.

“How comes it about that patients, given over as dead by their physicians, sometimes recover, and that some have even returned to life in the very time of their funerals?”—Celsus.

“Such is the condition of humanity, and so uncertain is men’s judgment, that they cannot determine even death itself.”—Pliny.