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{{Style S-Small capitals|The}} record of all who have been buried alive, says Henry Belinaye, would form a fearful volume, and strongly guard us against a too hasty presumption of death. Even in the time of Pliny, alarm had begun to be felt on this subject, and he dedicated a whole chapter to it. Bodies have been found in burial vaults, which had turned upon their laces or sides—which had bled—which had marks of self-inflicted violence upon them, &c. From Bruhier alone, we learn that on the Continent, “Out of one hundred and eighty examples of persons erroneously supposed to be dead, fifty, two had been buried alive; four had been opened after supposed death, fifty-two had spontaneously revived after being put in their coffins; seventy-two were discovered to be alive, after having been deemed dead.” Surgeons have, through inadvertence, opened bodies which only parted with life on the application of the scalpel: this occured to Vesalius. Again, in 1763, a clergyman, supposed to have died from apoplexy, emitted a groan at the first incision of the knife by a surgeon deputed to investigate the cause of his death. La Place being informed of the circumstance and asked what was to be done, replied, “Gemir et se taire,”—Lament and conceal it. | {{Style S-Small capitals|The}} record of all who have been buried alive, says Henry Belinaye, would form a fearful volume, and strongly guard us against a too hasty presumption of death. Even in the time of Pliny, alarm had begun to be felt on this subject, and he dedicated a whole chapter to it. Bodies have been found in burial vaults, which had turned upon their laces or sides—which had bled—which had marks of self-inflicted violence upon them, &c. From Bruhier alone, we learn that on the Continent, “Out of one hundred and eighty examples of persons erroneously supposed to be dead, fifty, two had been buried alive; four had been opened after supposed death, fifty-two had spontaneously revived after being put in their coffins; seventy-two were discovered to be alive, after having been deemed dead.” Surgeons have, through inadvertence, opened bodies which only parted with life on the application of the scalpel: this occured to Vesalius. Again, in 1763, a clergyman, supposed to have died from apoplexy, emitted a groan at the first incision of the knife by a surgeon deputed to investigate the cause of his death. La Place being informed of the circumstance and asked what was to be done, replied, “Gemir et se taire,”—Lament and conceal it. | ||
Everybody is acquainted with the singular instance of an extraordinary resurrection recorded on a monument in a church of this city (London), and whoever is disposed to peruse many most marvelous and well-authenticated instances, will find them in Fodere and other authors, who have written expressly on the subject. The following will illustrate, and suffice for the present. In the Journal des Scavants, 1749, we find it recorded that a. woman in 1745 {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on | 3-82}} | Everybody is acquainted with the singular instance of an extraordinary resurrection recorded on a monument in a church of this city (London), and whoever is disposed to peruse many most marvelous and well-authenticated instances, will find them in Fodere and other authors, who have written expressly on the subject. The following will illustrate, and suffice for the present. In the Journal des Scavants, 1749, we find it recorded that a. woman in 1745 {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |3-82}} | ||