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An exhaustive treatise into the causes of premature burial and on the methods of preventing this terrible danger, which is likely to attract general attention. There is something about the mere idea of being buried alive which causes one to shudder, and when specialists affirm that the number of cases of premature burial are numbered by thousands, the question becomes one which appeals to the sympathy and co-operation of the community at large. -New York Herald The work on 'Premature Burial, ' by Mr. Tebb and Col. E. P. Vollum, has already attracted considerable notice, but we have not been able to notice it as early as it deserved. The subject is a painful one, and it demands more attention than has yet been give to it, though the twenty or more pages of the bibliography of the subject appended to this volume show that it has not been neglected. But from the frequency of the occurrences described, we are led to believe that people generally, and ordinary medical practitioners, do not appreciate the seriousness of the matter. Without entering into details, we hope that this book will meet with the attention it deserves, and that it may be the means of saving many people in future from that most horrible fate imaginable, known as a 'living tomb'' -The Westminster Review Table of Contents EPIGRAPHS PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. INTRODUCTION TO SECOND EDITION. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. CHAPTER I. TRANCE. CHAPTER II. CATALEPSY. CHAPTER III. ANIMAL AND SO-CALLED HUMAN HIBERNATION. CHAPTER IV. PREMATURE BURIAL. CHAPTER V. NARROW ESCAPES FROM PREMATURE BURIAL. CHAPTER VI. FORMALITIES AND THEIR FATAL CONSEQUENCES. CHAPTER VII. PREMATURE BURIAL OF DOUBTFUL CASES. CHAPTER VIII. PREDISPOSING CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF DEATH- COUNTERFEITS. CHAPTER IX. PREMATURE BURIAL AND CREMATION IN INDIA. CHAPTER X. THE DANGER OF HASTY BURIALS. CHAPTER XI. FEAR OF PREMATURE BURIAL. CHAPTER XII. SUDDEN DEATH. CHAPTER XIII. SIGNS OF DEATH. CHAPTER XIV. DURATION OF DEATH-COUNTERFEITS. CHAPTER XV. THE TREATMENT OF THE DEAD. CHAPTER XVI. NUMBER OF CASES OF PREMATURE BURIAL. CHAPTER XVII. EMBALMING AND DISSECTIONS. CHAPTER XVIII. DEATH-CERTIFICATION. CHAPTER XIX. SUGGESTIONS FOR PREVENTION. CHAPTER XX. COUNT KARNICE-KARNICKFS INVENTION. CHAPTER XXL CREMATION AS A PREVENTIVE. CHAPTER XXII. WAITING MORTUARIES. CHAPTER XXIII. CONCLUSION. APPENDIX A. HISTORICAL CASES OF RESTORATION FROM APPARENT DEATH. APPENDIX B. RESUSCITATION OF STILL-BORN AND OTHER INFANTS. APPENDIX C. RECOVERY OF THE DROWNED. APPENDIX D. EMBALMING IN THE UNITED STATES. APPENDIX E. SUMMARY OF ORDINANCES, ETC., RELATING TO THE INSPECTION OF CORPSES AND OF INTERMENTS. APPENDIX F. THE JEWISH PRACTICE OF EARLY BURIAL. BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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