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Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by Edward Perry Vollum,William Tebb Pdf
"Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented" by Edward Perry Vollum and William Tebb is a thought-provoking and unsettling exploration of a macabre topic. The authors delve into the chilling phenomenon of premature burial, a fear that haunted many during the 19th century. Vollum and Tebb discuss cases of individuals mistakenly buried alive and propose methods to prevent such horrifying incidents. This book provides a fascinating historical perspective on the fear of premature burial and the medical and technological advancements aimed at addressing it. It is a gripping read for those interested in the macabre and the history of medical practices.
Premature Burial by Walter R. Hadwen,Walter Hadwen Pdf
Long out of print, this book was written by a prominent physician to reassure the many 19th century people who were worried about being buried aliveOne of the authors himself had a narrow escape with live burial, as his collaborator writes: "Dr. Vollum first became interested in the important question of Premature Burial in consequence of his own very narrow escape from live sepulture, having been pronounced dead from drowning, and prepared, for interment, when consciousness happily returned spontaneously." This edited version of the book extracts the most spine-chilling stories of narrow escapes and living burials from a mass of historical material. It includes such chapters as Animal and So-called Human Hibernation, Narrow Escapes from Premature Burial, Premature Burial of Doubtful Cases, Death-Counterfeits, The Danger of Hasty Burials, Sudden Death, Embalming and Dissections, and Count Karnice-Karnicki's Invention.
During the 1800s, stories filled medical journals as well as fiction (Poe's "The Premature Burial") of people being buried before they actually died. Canvassing medical records of the time, the author presents an engrossing and witty history of the fear and facts of being buried alive. Illustrations.
THE HISTORY BOOKS ARE WRONG! * Joan of Arc wasn’t burned at the stake * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid didn’t die in a South American shootout * Amelia Earhart wasn’t lost at sea * Napoleon didn’t end his days in exile * Jesse James, Billy the Kid and John Dillinger died of old age * The Boston Strangler was never caught * Custer’s Last Stand had a survivor * The biggest Nazi fish escaped the net at the end of World War II * John Wilkes Booth lived for many years after he shot Abraham Lincoln * Anastasia and her family weren’t executed * D.B. Cooper lived to tell about his daring skyjack …AND MUCH MORE
In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physicians of a verifiable case of zombification led him to try to obtain the poison associated with the process and examine it for potential medical use. Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a network of power relations reaching all levels of Haitian political life. It sheds light on recent Haitian political history, including the meteoric rise under Duvalier of the Tonton Macoute. By explaining zombification as a rational process within the context of traditional Vodoun society, Davis demystifies one of the most exploited of folk beliefs, one that has been used to denigrate an entire people and their religion.
Critics have often charged Edgar Allan Poe with sloppy writing. Using stylistics and classical rhetorical theory, Brett Zimmerman demonstrates that Poe was in fact a brilliant and deliberate lexical technician who varied his prose style according to genre and the world views and the mental health or illness of his narrators. Zimmerman breaks new ground in Poe studies by providing a catalogue of three hundred figures of speech and thought in the author's oeuvre, including his tales, personal correspondence, literary criticism, book reviews, and Marginalia. This incisive catalogue of literary and rhetorical terms, presented in alphabetical order and amply illustrated with examples - in addition to close examinations of some of Poe's most important tales - overwhelmingly demonstrates Poe's rhetorical and linguistic dexterity putting a nearly two-hundred-year-old critical debate to rest by showing Poe to be a conscientious craftsman of the highest order.
When the "Dead" Rose in Britain by Nicole C. Salomone Pdf
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.
Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by William Tebb,Edward Perry Vollum, M.d. Pdf
NEWCASTLE CHRONICLE. "Society is indebted to the authors for a scientific and temperately written treatise, in which the more sensational and horrifying cases are avoided, with the view of sparing the reader unnecessary pain. There can be no question that the sooner this subject is actively dealt with the better for the community." HOMOEOPATHIC WORLD. "An important work containing a vast amount of unimpeachable evidence to show that a very real danger exists, and that strong measures ought to be taken to safeguard the public against it." PALL MALL GAZETTE. "Horrible as are some of the details, they enforce the authors' plea for more careful examination of the presumably dead, and their arguments have great force." LIVERPOOL POST. "The moral of the book is that burial alive is a far greater danger than most people suppose." BIRMINGHAM DAILY GAZETTE. "That there is real danger in hurried interments, no one who glances at this volume can doubt, and the authors' contention that the subject of the book should be legislated upon is reasonable. The book is greatly enhanced in value by an exhaustive bibliography and an excellent index." BRISTOL TIMES. "The whole subject is exhaustively treated in this volume, which people interested would do well to give their careful perusal. It is extremely well done." SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH. "A valuable and interesting volume." BELFAST NEWS LETTER. "The work sets forth some very convincing statements, and has fully justified the authors in presenting their joint opinion on a subject that ought to concern the community. They adduce quite a plethora of evidence to sustain their contention." THE LITERARY WORLD (LONDON). "The subject of premature burial is one of universal interest, and those who have it at heart cannot do better than make themselves as familiar with the subject as the exhaustive work before us admits. The writers have brought together a mass of facts and figures bearing on the question, and their conclusions are not to be denied or their labour undervalued. The book may strike a chord of interest, and arrest an attention that will be the means of a thorough reconsideration of our burial customs." Table of Contents EPIGRAPHS PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. INTRODUCTION TO SECOND EDITION. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. CHAPTER I. TRANCE. CHAPTER II. CATALEPSY. CHAPTER III. ANIMAL AND SO-CALLED HUMAN HIBERNATION. CHAPTER IV. PREMATURE BURIAL. CHAPTER V. NARROW ESCAPES FROM PREMATURE BURIAL. CHAPTER VI. FORMALITIES AND THEIR FATAL CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER VII. PREMATURE BURIAL OF DOUBTFUL CASES. CHAPTER VIII. PREDISPOSING CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF DEATH-COUNTERFEITS. CHAPTER IX. PREMATURE BURIAL AND CREMATION IN INDIA. CHAPTER X. THE DANGER OF HASTY BURIALS. CHAPTER XI. FEAR OF PREMATURE BURIAL. CHAPTER XII. SUDDEN DEATH. CHAPTER XIII. SIGNS OF DEATH. CHAPTER XIV. DURATION OF DEATH-COUNTERFEITS. CHAPTER XV. THE TREATMENT OF THE DEAD. CHAPTER XVI. NUMBER OF CASES OF PREMATURE BURIAL. CHAPTER XVII. EMBALMING AND DISSECTIONS. CHAPTER XVIII. DEATH-CERTIFICATION. CHAPTER XIX. SUGGESTIONS FOR PREVENTION. CHAPTER XX. COUNT KARNICE-KARNICKI'S INVENTION. CHAPTER XXL CREMATION AS A PREVENTIVE. CHAPTER XXII. WAITING MORTUARIES. CHAPTER XXIII. CONCLUSION. APPENDIX A. HISTORICAL CASES OF RESTORATION FROM APPARENT DEATH. APPENDIX B. RESUSCITATION OF STILL-BORN AND OTHER INFANTS. APPENDIX C. RECOVERY OF THE DROWNED. APPENDIX D. EMBALMING IN THE UNITED STATES. APPENDIX E. SUMMARY OF ORDINANCES, ETC., RELATING TO THE INSPECTION OF CORPSES AND OF INTERMENTS. APPENDIX F. THE JEWISH PRACTICE OF EARLY BURIAL. BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Poe and the Subversion of American Literature by Robert T. Tally Jr. Pdf
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan Poe is best understood, not merely as a talented artist or canny magazinist, but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire and fantasy to poke fun at an emergent nationalist discourse circulating in the United States. Poe's satirical and fantastic mode, on display even in his apparently serious short stories and literary criticism, undermines the earnest attempts to establish a distinctively national literature in the nineteenth century. In retrospect, Poe's work also subtly subverts the tenets of an institutionalized American Studies in the twentieth century. Tally interprets Poe's life and works in light of his own social milieu and in relation to the disciplinary field of American literary studies, finding Poe to be neither the poète maudit of popular mythology nor the representative American writer revealed by recent scholarship. Rather, Poe is an untimely figure whose work ultimately makes a mockery of those who would seek to contain it. Drawing upon Gilles Deleuze's distinction between nomad thought and state philosophy, Tally argues that Poe's varied literary and critical writings represent an alternative to American literature. Through his satirical critique of U.S. national culture and his otherworldly projection of a postnational space of the imagination, Poe establishes a subterranean, nomadic, and altogether worldly literary practice.
The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.
Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has gained wide acceptance as a funeral rite, in both our private and public lives, as the cremations of icons such as John Lennon and John F. Kennedy Jr. show. Purified by Fire tells the fascinating story of cremation's rise from notoriety to legitimacy and takes a provocative new look at important transformations in the American cultural landscape over the last 150 years. Stephen Prothero synthesizes a wide array of previously untapped source material, including newspapers, consumer guides, mortician trade journals, and popular magazines such as Reader's Digest to provide this first historical study of cremation in the United States. He vividly describes many noteworthy events—from the much-criticized first American cremation in 1876 to the death and cremation of Jerry Garcia in the late twentieth century. From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era to the baby boomers of today, this book takes us on a tour through American culture and traces our changing attitudes toward death, religion, public health, the body, and the environment.
New Mexico Book of the Undead by Ray John de Aragón Pdf
New Mexico is a land of shadow and mystery. From the old coal mines near Raton and the isolation of Isleta Pueblo to the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and beyond, ghouls and spirits lie in wait. Witches transform into vampire bats, werewolves howl and the undead rise with the light of the moon. La Llorona walks the banks of rivers and roads, her legendary and mournful cries terrifying any who cross her path. They are stories passed down by the fearless Comancheros, devoted Franciscan monks, fierce ciboleros and others to the present day as warnings of the evil in the world. In a captivating exploration of New Mexico's most fearful tales, Ray John de Aragon recounts stories from the state's rich and spine-chilling cultural folklore.
Fear — the word, itself, conjures the appropriate response. With a dark cacophony of associations like fright, dread, horror, panic, alarm, anxiety, and terror, fear is universally understood as one of the most basic and powerful of human emotions, obtaining a nearly palpable and overwhelming substance in today's world. In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian and prize–winning author Joanna Bourke covers the landscape of fear over the past two hundred years: From the nineteenth century dread of being buried alive — a subject dear to the heart of Edgar Allen Poe — to the current worry over being able to die when one chooses; from the diagnoses of phobias and anxieties produced by psychotherapists and lovingly catalogued, to the role of popular culture and media in inciting panic and dread; from the horrors of the nuclear age to the fear of twenty–first century terrorism, Fear tells the story of anguish in modern times. A blend of social and cultural history with psychology, philosophy, and popular science, this astonishing book — exhaustively researched and beautifully written — offers strikingly original insights into the mind and worldview of the "long twentieth century" from one of the most brilliant scholars of our time.
Symptoms of Disorder: Reading Madness in British Literature, 1744-1845 by Natali, Ilaria ,Volpone, Annalisa Pdf
The stylistic and cultural discourse concerning the narratives of mental disorder is the main focus of Symptoms of Disorder: Reading Madness in British Literature 1744-1845. This collection offers new insights into the representation of madness in British literature between two landmark dates for the social, philosophical and medical history of mental deviance: 1744 and 1845. In 1744, the Vagrancy Act first mentions 'lunatics' as a specific category, which is itself a social 'symptom' of an emerging need for isolation and confinement of the insane. A more sophisticated and attentive care of the 'fool' is testified only by the 1845 Lunatic Asylums Act, which established specific processes safeguarding against the wrongful detention of patients in public and private facilities. In stressing for the first time the momentous change the notion of madness underwent between these years, this book provides a fresh and absolutely unique perspective on some of the major works connected with mental disorder. The chronological boundaries also provide the collection with a definite and unifying frame, which comprises social, cultural, legal and medical aspects of madness as an historical phenomenon. It is within this frame that the eight essays composing the body of the book discuss how madness is recounted, or even experienced, by authors such as Christopher Smart and William Cowper, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Thomas Perceval, Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Lennox, Eliza Haywood, and Alfred Tennyson. Symptoms of Disorder draws a wide-ranging map of different representations of madness and their historic functioning between the 18th and 19th centuries. The organizational principle of this collection is a double perspective, which allows to suitably articulate the characterizations of insanity into themes and genres. Reflecting the two main ways in which literary madness can be employed as a critical device in literature, the chapters are grouped into theme-oriented and writer-oriented analyses. Other collections dealing with literature and madness have already coped, to a certain degree, with works that represent insane characters and authors who adopt 'deviant' voices as a fictional or rhetoric expedient. Fewer studies of the same kind, instead, have offered a more comprehensive picture by also looking at the alleged insanity of the writer, and at those linguistic, stylistic and semantic elements which at some stage were commonly believed to be an expression of insanity. This is one of the first studies which addresses the representation of madness from both these intertwined perspectives. See www.cambriapress.com/books/9781604979251.cfm for more information.
The One Year Book of Amazing Stories by Robert Petterson Pdf
ECPA 2020 Christian Book Award Finalist! You wouldn’t believe it, but . . . James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, grew up mute. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Albert Einstein was bullied mercilessly in school. Beethoven’s mom almost aborted him. Life takes the strangest sharp turns—and sometimes, U-turns. Robert Petterson—popular speaker, storyteller, and author—has been a student for his entire life of what God is teaching us through those real-life U-turns. In this book, he compiles 365 amazing stories that teach lessons you won’t easily forget. Each entry is written in the rest-of-the-story style popularized by Paul Harvey. With The One Year Book of Amazing Stories, you’ll marvel at how God has used the lives of these ordinary people to change the course of human history.
