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Bruhier d’Ablaincourt JJ. The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections demonstrated, I., II., III..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 precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death, 1746.

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Catalog Record: Bruhier d’Ablaincourt JJ. The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections demonstrated, I., II., III..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 precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death, 1746.

Title: The uncertainty of the signs of death, and the danger of precipitate interments and dissections demonstrated, I., II., III..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 precautions they made use of to ascertain the certainty of death.

AccessKey: acia

Author: [Bruhier d’Ablaincourt, Jean Jacques,] d. 1756.

WLM Call Number: WO 250 B834 1746 RB

Accession NO.: 8018

Publisher: London : M. Cooper, 1746

Physical Description: [8], 219 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.

Subject: Resuscitation.
Subject: Death – diagnosis.

Abstract: This work is attributed to Bruhier d’Ablaincourt An unsubstantiated
speculation noted that in 1742, Bruhier translated into French a work
of the same subject by Jacques Benigne Winslow, entitled “Dissertation
sur l’incertitude des signes de la mort, et l’abus des enterremens, &
embaumemens precipites.” This work was then translated into English in
1746. It records stories of people considered dead and buried but
actually still alive.

General Notes: Digitized by Northern Micrographics June 22, 2010.