16 results filtered with: Burial, Premature
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An emaciated man, rescued from a premature burial, being helped to sit up on an outdoor hospital bed. Photograph.
Reference: 35191i
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Traitdes signes de la mort et des moyens de prenir les enterrements pratur / par E. Bouchut.
Bouchut, E. (Euge), 1818-1891.Date: 1849
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Recherches mico-lales sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort : les dangers des inhumations pripits / par M. Julia de Fontenelle.
Julia de Fontenelle, M. (Jean-Sastien-Euge), 1790-1842.Date: 1834- Books
Buried alive : the terrifying history of our most primal fear / Jan Bondeson.
Bondeson, Jan.Date: 2001
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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.
Tebb, William, 1830-1918.Date: 1896
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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. Also a description of the manner the ancient Egyptians, and other nations preserved and venerated their dead, and a curious account of their sepulchral ever burning lamps and mausoleums. Likewise the pernicious effects of burying in the body of churches, and confined church yards pointed out, whereby many valuable lives have been lost to the public, and their friends. Selected from historical records / by Joseph Taylor.
Taylor, Joseph, 1761 or 1762-1844.Date: 1816
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The dissecting room of an anatomist, with a man thought to be dead waking up and sitting up in his coffin. Drawing, 183- (?).
Date: [between 1830 and 1839?]Reference: 562981i
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The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have retun'd to life ... with proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne, 1669-1760Date: 1748
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The danger of premature interment : proved from many remarkable instances ... : also a description of the manner the ancient Egyptians ... preserved ... their dead and a curious account of their sepulchral ever burning lamps and mausoleums ... / by Joseph Taylor.
Taylor, Joseph, 1761 or 1762-1844.Date: 1818
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Thesaurus of horror; or, The charnelhouse explored!! : being an historical and philanthropical inquisition made for the quondam-blood of its inhabitants! by a contemplative descent into the untimely grave! shewing, by a number of awful facts that have transpired as well as from philosophical inquiry, the re-animating power of fresh earth in cases of syncope, &c. and the extreme criminality of hasty funerals: with the surest methods of escaping the ineffable horrors of premature interment!! The frightful mysteries of the dark ages laid open, which not only deluged the Roman Empire, but triumphed over all Christendom for a thousand years! Entombing the sciences, and subsequently reviving all the ignorance and superstition of Gothic barbarity! / by John Snart.
Snart, John.Date: 1817- Books
Premature burial : how it may be prevented / by William Tebb, Edward Perry Vollum and Walter R. Hadwen.
Tebb, William, 1830-1918.Date: 2012
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Traité des signes de la mort et des moyens de prévenir les enterrements prématurés.
Bouchut, E. (Eugène), 1818-1891.Date: 1849- Books
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. Also a description of the manner the ancient Egyptians, and other nations, preserved and venerated their dead, and a curious account of their sepulchral ever burning lamps and mausoleums. ... Selected from historical records. / By Joseph Taylor.
Taylor, Joseph, 1761 or 1762-1844Date: 1816
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Mémoire sur le danger des inhumations précipitées, et sur la nécessité d'un règlement, pour mettre les citoyens à l'abri du malheur d'être enterrés vivans : Dans lequel on rapporte des observations de personnes enterrées & ouvertes vivantes, tant dans les diocèses du Poitiers & de la Rochelle qu'ailleurs; & de plusieurs autres, qui ayant été réputées mortes pendant long-temps, sont revenues à elles, soit naturellement, soit par les secours qu'on leur a donnés; et où l'on a ajouté quelques, réflexions sur la nécessité de faire exécuter l'ordonnance, par laquelle M.M. les Evêques, défendent aux Meres de faire coucher leurs enfans avec elles, avec leurs nourrices ou autres personnes, jusqu'à ce qu'ils aient atteint l'âge de deux ans / par M. Pineau.
Pineau.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1786]- Books
Buried alive not just once - but twice! / I.A. Girvan.
Girvan, I. A.Date: 1996
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The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections, demonstrated, I. From the known laws of the animal œconomy. II. From the structure of the parts of the human body. And, III. From a great variety of amusing and well-attested instances of persons who have return'd to life ... With proper directions, both for preventing such accidents, and repairing the misfortunes brought upon the constitution by them. To the whole is added a curious and entertaining account of the funeral solemnities of many ancient and modern nations, exhibiting the precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death. Illustrated with copper plates / [Jacques-Bénigne Winslow].
Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne, 1669-1760Date: 1746