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, 1669-1760
Date:
1748
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    151/182 (page 139)
    of the Sadducees, and fome of the Hea- thens, who did not believe the Immortality of the Soul: For as the Apoftle Paul, ab- ftracting from his Infpiration, was well ac- -. quainted with Human Learning, it is by no .. means probable that he was ignorant of this, | that the greateft Part of the Heathens ex- pected to rejoin their Friends in the EZfian _ Fields, as we hope to fee ours in Heaven. . The Cuftom of making Lamentations füll prevails in Picardy, efpecially in the Country, where, when the Body is about to be carried to the Grave, all the Women embrace it, make terrible Lamentations, and . call the deceafed Perfon by his Name. Nor does this Practice proceed from a Principle of Humanity and Tendernefs, fince they fet about it, without fhedding a Tear, and perform the like Office to all dead Perfons . they have an Opportunity of feeing about to be carried to: the Grave; and the only Reafon they give for fuch a Conduct, is, that it is cuftomary. | It is true, Interments are not made with fuch Precipitation and Hurry thro’ all the . Chriftian World, as they are in Paris, and the adjacent T'owns, where it is common to interr the Dead before they have been twenty-four Hours deprived of Life. ! Mr. Winflow informs me, that in Denmark they do not bury their Dead till the fourth, or the End of the third Day, on account of the