The danger of premature interment
by Joseph Taylor
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About this eBook
- Author
- Taylor, Joseph, 1762?-1844
- Title
- The danger of premature interment : Proved from many remarkable instances of people who have recovered after being laid out for dead, and of others entombed alive, for want of being properly examined prior to interment
- Original Publication
- London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1815, pubdate 1816.
- Credits
- Aaron Adrignola, Gísli Valgeirsson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
- Subject
- Burial, Premature
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 71993
- Release Date
- October 31, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE DANGER OF Premature Interment.
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.INTRODUCTION.
- 6.THE DANGER OF Premature Interment, &c. &c.
- 7.REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF People who have been nearly buried alive, but recovered by resuscitative application . — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — XIII. — XIV. — XV. — XVI. — XVII. — XVIII. — XIX. — XX. — XXI. — XXII. — XXIII. — XXIV. — XXV. — XXVI. — XXVII. — XXVIII. — XXIX. — XXX. — XXXI. — XXXII. — XXXIII.
- 8.ACCOUNT Of the various MODES OF BURYING THE DEAD, ADOPTED BY DIFFERENT NATIONS . — Account of the opening of the Tomb of King Edward I. in Westminster Abbey, 467 years after its Interment. — The following remarkable fact is translated from the Imperial Gazette of Petersburg, dated December 17th, 1798.
- 9.OBSERVATIONS ON THE DANGER OF BURYING IN CHURCHES AND CONFINED CHURCH-YARDS .
- 10.THE FATAL CONSEQUENCES Of opening TOMBS OR GRAVES TOO SOON . — Further corroboration of the aforesaid subject.
- 11.ACCOUNT OF REMARKABLE TOMBS, AND EVER-BURNING LAMPS OF THE ANCIENTS. — 1. — 2. — 3. — Mr. Addison in his Spectator, relates the following story of the lamp of Rosicrucius.
- 12.METHODS OF EMBALMING .
- 13.INDEX — Transcriber’s Notes
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