THE DANGER OF Premature Interment.
Reading edition
Plummer and Brewis, Printers, Love-Lane, Eastcheap.
H. Corbould del.Hopwood sc. The body of Tulliolæ, the daughter of Cicero, discovered entire and uncorrupted, in a Sepulchre, 1500 Years after Burial. Vide Page 127. Publish’d by W. Simpkin & R. Marshall Decʳ 1815.
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.
“To revive nailed up in a Coffin! A return of Life in Darkness, Distraction, and Despair! The Brain can scarce sustain the reflection, in our coolest moments.”
LONDON: PRINTED FOR W. SIMPKIN AND R. MARSHALL, Stationers Court, Ludgate-Street.
1816.