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.