Author: James CurryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Popular Observations on Apparent Death from Drowning, Suffocation, &c
Author: James CurryObservations on Apparent Death from Drowning, Hanging, Suffocation
Author: James Curry (physician.)Publisher:
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Category : Death, Apparent
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
Author: A Catalogue of the Library ...
Author: A Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London
Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Bibliographie / Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
Observations on Apparent Death from Drowning, etc
Author: James CurryCatalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. (Additions.) No. 4-18
Author: Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of LondonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: When the "Dead" Rose in Britain
Author: Nicole C. SalomonePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476682747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Through a detailed and fascinating exploration of changing medical knowledge and practice, this book provides a timeline of humankind's understanding of physiological death. Anchored in Early Modern Britain, it explains how evolving medical theories challenged the ambiguous definition of death, instigating anxieties over the newly realized potential for officials to mistake a person's time of death. Fears of premature burials were materialized as newspapers across Europe printed hundreds of articles about people who had been misdiagnosed as dead and were then buried--or nearly buried--alive. These stories, tallied in this text, present the first contemporary statistic of how frequently misdiagnosed death led to premature burial during the eighteenth century. The public consciousness of premature burial manifested itself in many ways, including the necessity of having a wake before a funeral and the creation of safety coffins. This book also explores the folkloric phenomenon of the rising dead and the stories that inspired a number of authors including Coleridge, Byron and Stoker, who blended medical understanding with fiction to create vampire literature.