| Show BURIAL the alarm that has h been occasioned by the statement of a board of health officer nicer that he WM was almost of f the belief that in nearly five fire per cent of human burlah were there Is till still lite life in the subject and the announcement that some ome one in vienna has hai discovered a now new kino kind at 01 roentgen raya which will infallibly determine whether death or catalepsy has haa intervened receive editorial notice in the last lal number dumber of a the medical haord that journal takes take a decided tend tand against the assor lion a 0 mr sextus about the clity a 0 many prea persons being buried before actual death has ba taken place and says av that the majority of instances one finds fiad recorded of ef a return to te life ca a struggle in the grave grav ap are bond upon faulty deductions deduction the body being found in contracted and dig totted positions with hands banda clenched hair torn out onti blood stains precept etc ate Is 1 to be explained by us ua ural tarsi conditions condition but the he record calls call attention to the fact that to in Dau ember last baat it pointed out a much more serious probable danger than that 0 being burled buried alive via TIB the me shameful mauner to la which th the supposed dead are harried away by undertakers undertaken to be frozen frown it ventured the opinion that physicians are not blameless blam eleu in tie is matter and pointed out that in moat instances there li Is no objection to giving the subject the benefit of the doubt and act at least for some hours boun refraining from putting patting obstacles obstacle in the way of a renewal of vital function it also alao altos that during cholera to in now new york many years yean ago there were instances of auto after d death ana adds that that in i peculiarly likely to result in a tate state of pseudo pado death this qu estloa loa of premature buriani burials cornea comes up with periodical regularity and each time it in dis cussed a sufficient number of agthen tic instances of 99 coming to life again before burial are recorded to make it 16 quite eay easy to believe that hat more la stances taneji of burial while the supposedly dead are till still alive do in reality occur than physicians as aa a rule have been willing to admit but the position of the medical record that very lew few premature buriani burials actually occur but that there may be numbers of case ass of freezing to death by basty baity anderzak ander tak orp en seems eema to present a point for serious consideration in some ome cases of doubts doubt ful dissolution |
