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• Immortality in mortality magnifi'd in a strange (yet true) narration of one Master Pountney, merchant, sometimes living in the parish of Mary le Bow in Cheapside, who was buried in the chancell of the church of Leonard East-cheap, anno Dom. 1613. and was found on this present Feb. 15. 1647. whole and sound without any diminution or corruption of his members or body inward or outward, having lain in his grave (according to the precedent date, which is extracted from the register book of the aforesaid parish, Leonards East-cheap) 34 years, published as a wonder of wonders in this age. Printed and published according to order of Parliament. (London, : printed for Thomas Bates, at the sign of the Maiden-head on Snow-hill, neer Holburn conduit, 1647) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De linteis sepulchralibus Christi Servatoris crisis historica (Ex officina Plantiniana, 1688), by Jean-Jacques Chifflet, Peter Jumelers, Cornelis Galle, and Plantijnsche Drukkerij (page images at HathiTrust)

• De linteis sepulchralibus Christi Servatoris crisis historica (Ex officina Plantiniana, 1688), by Jean-Jacques Chifflet, Peter Jumelers, Cornelis Galle, and Plantijnsche Drukkerij (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sindone evangelica (Per Nicola Giacinto Marta, 1703), by Paolo Emilio Ristori, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Nicola Giacinto Marta, Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esplicatione del sacro lenzvolo, ove fv involto il Signore et delle piaghe in esso impresse col suo pretioso sangue (Presso gli Heredi di Gio. Rossi, 1599), by Alfonso Paleotti, Agostino Carracci, and Heredi di Giovanni Rossi (page images at HathiTrust)

• Méthode pour rappeler les noyés à la vie, recueillie des meilleurs auteurs (De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1771), by Jacques François de Villiers, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Imprimerie Royale (París) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De par les prevôt des marchands, et échevins de la ville de Paris : :avis concernant les Personnes noyées qui paroissent mortes, [et] qui, ne l'étant pas, peuvent recevoir des secours pour être rappellées à la vie. (de l'Imprimerie d'Aug. Mart. Lottin l'aîné ..., 1773), by Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) and Augustin Martin Lottin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detail des succès de l'établissement que la ville de Paris a fait en faveur des personnes noyées : Premier supplément : depuis le I Avril 1773, jusques & compris le mois de Décembre suivant (chez Lottin l'aîné ... :, 1774), by Philippe Nicolas Pia, Eugene Onfroy, and Augustin Martin Lottin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detail des succès de l'établissement que la ville de Paris a fait en faveur des personnes noyées, & qui a été adopté dans diverses provinces de France : troisième partie année 1774 ... (chez Lottin l'aîné ... :, 1775), by Philippe Nicolas Pia, Eugene Onfroy, and Augustin Martin Lottin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detail des succès de l'établissement que la ville de Paris a fait en faveur des personnes noyées : avec les différentes instructions ... on y a Joint une notice chronologique ... (chez Lottin l'aîné ..., 1773), by Philippe Nicolas Pia and Augustin Martin Lottin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detail des succès de l'établissement que la ville de Paris a fait en faveur des personnes noyées, & qui a été adopté dans diverses provinces de France : quatrième partie, année 1775 ... (chez Lottin l'aîné ..., 1776), by Philippe Nicolas Pia, Augustin Martin Lottin, and Billé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detail des succès de l'établissement que la ville de Paris a fait en faveur des personnes noyées, & qui a été adopté dans diverses provinces de France : cinquième partie, année 1776 ... (chez Augustin-Martin Lottin l'aîné ..., 1777), by Philippe Nicolas Pia and Augustin Martin Lottin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detail des succès de l'établissement que la ville de Paris a fait en faveur des personnes noyées, & qui a été adopté dans diverses provinces de France : sixième partie, années 1777 & 1778 ... (chez Augustin-Martin Lottin, l'aîné ..., 1779), by Philippe Nicolas Pia and Augustin Martin Lottin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detail des succès de l'établissement que la ville de Paris a fait en faveur des personnes noyées, lequel a été adopté dans toute la France, & même chez l'etranger : septieme partie, années 1779, 1780 & 1781 ... (chez Augustin-Martin Lottin l'aîné ..., 1782), by Philippe Nicolas Pia and Augustin Martin Lottin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A physical dissertation on drowning : in which submersion, commonly call'd drowning, is shewn to be a long time consistent with the continuance of life ... (printed for Jacob Robinson ..., 1746), by Rowland Jackson and Jacob Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sad news from Oxford shier, and Berke-shier, &c. (London : printed for R. Vaughan, in the Little-old-Baily, 1674) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Dissertation sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort, et l'abus des enterremens, & embaumemens précipités (chez De Bure l'Aîné ..., 1749), by Jacques Benigne Winslow, S.J. Guoz, and De Bure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertation sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort, et l'abus des enterremens, & embaumemens précipités (chez De Bure l'Aîné ..., 1745), by Jacques Benigne Winslow, S.J. Guoz, Claude-François Simon, and De Bure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertation sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort, et l'abus des enterremens, & embaumemens précipités (chez Cl.-Fr. Simon, fils ..., 1742), by Jacques Benigne Winslow, Claude-François Simon, and Jacques-Jean Bruhier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertation sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort, et l'abus des enterremens, & embaumemens précipités (chez Morel, le jeune ... :, 1742), by Jacques Benigne Winslow, Jean Raoul Morel, Pierre Prault, Marcel Prault de Saint Germain, Claude-François Simon, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, and Jacques Jean Bruhier d'Ablaincourt (page images at HathiTrust)

• H. D. Gaubii adversariorum varii argumenti : liber unus. (Apud S. et J. Luchtmans, 1771), by Hieronymus David Gaubius, Johann Luchtmans, Samuel Luchtmans, and J.J. Bÿlaert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sad and lamentable newes from Holland Being a true relation of the great and wonderful inundation of waters, that brake in at the town of Gorkham, in the night-time, near the city of Amsterdam, where many stately houses became bnried [sic] in the violent waves; both men, vvomen and children perishing in the raging billows. Also, the manner how the waters brake in again with great violence, on Munday last about noon, at the two strong sluces of Bonmel and Thieler, where about thirty villages were drowned and not any thing to be seen, but the tops of some few steeples and chimneys, many perishing in the vvaters; some escaping in boats, and the poor infants floating upon the raging vvaves in their swadling-bands and cradles together with the sad and wofull cries and groans of the poor distressed inhabitants; and the ringing of the bells backward, to prevent the perishing of others. (London : printed for J. Johnson, 1663) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De par les prevôt des marchands, et échevins de la ville de Paris : :avis concernant les Personnes noyées qui paroissent mortes, [et] qui, ne l'étant pas, peuvent recevoir des secours pour être rappellées à la vie. (de l'Imprimerie d'Aug. Mart. Lottin l'aîné ..., 1774), by Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) and Augustin Martin Lottin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monsieur le prevôt des marchands fait savoir aux Sergens des corps-de-gardes des ports & quais ... (s.n., 1773), by Jean Baptiste François de Lamichodière and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De par les prevôt des marchands, et échevins de la ville de Paris : avis concernant les Personnes noyées qui paroissent mortes, & qui, ne l'étant pas, peuvent recevoir des secours pour être rappellées à la vie. (de l'Imprimerie de Lottin aîné ..., 1772), by Augustin-Martin Lottin and Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De par les prevôt des marchands, et échevins de la ville de Paris : avis concernant les Personnes noyées qui paroissent mortes, & qui, ne l'étant pas, peuvent recevoir des secours pour être rappellées à la vie. (de l'Imprimerie de Lottin aîné ..., 1772), by Augustin-Martin Lottin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sphinx mystagoga, sive, Diatribe hieroglyphica (Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1676), by Athanasius Kircher, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, and Coenraet Decker (page images at HathiTrust)
• ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ; Or, the Art of Embalming;: Wherein Is Shewn the Right of Burial, and Funeral Ceremonies, Especially That of Preserving Bodies After the Egyptian Method. Together With an Account of the Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Subterranean Vaults and Lamps, and Their Opinion of the Metempsychosis, the Cause of Their Embalming. As Also a Geographical Description of Egypt, the Rise and Course of the Nile, the Temper, Constitution and Physic of the Inhabitants, Their Inventions, Arts, Sciences, Stupendous Works and Sepulchres, and Other Curious Observations Any Ways Relating to the Physiology and Knowledge of This Art., by Thomas Greenhill (Gutenberg ebook)

• Consens der fürnemsten, beide alten vnnd newen Historienschreiber, auch Medicorum, von etlichen köstlichen hochnötigen frembden Artzneien, vnd erstlichen, von der rechten warhafften Mumia, vnnd dergleichen Materialien, im heiligen Lande, auch in Arabia und Egypten gebreuchlichen : welcher Gestalt allhier jetzo zu schawen ist ... (Getruckt ... durch Johannem Schmidt, 1574), by Joachim Strupp (page images at HathiTrust)

• The vvitty rogue arraigned, condemned, & executed. Or, The history of that incomparable thief Richard Hainam. Relating the several robberies, mad pranks, and handsome jests by him performed, as it was taken from his own mouth, not long before his death. Likewise the manner of robbing the King of Denmark, the King of France, the Duke of Normandy, the merchant at Rotterdam, cum multis aliis. Also, with his confession, concerning his robbing of the King of Scots. Together with his speech at the place of execution. / Published by E.S. for information & satisfaction of the people. (London : printed for E.S. and are to be sold at the Greyhound in St. Paul's Church-yard., 1656), by E. S. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The speech and confession of Mr. Richard Hannam on Tuesday last in the rounds of Smithfield, being the 17. of this instant June immediately before his great and fatall leap from off the ladder together with a true and perfect description of his life and death; his several rambles, figaries, exploits, and designs, performed in most parts of Europe; especially upon the king of Scots, the queen of Sweden, the kings of France, Spain, and Denmark, the high and mighty States of Holland, the great Turk, and the pope of Rome. This is licensed and entred, according to speciall order and command. (London, : Printed for G. Horton, 1656), by Richard Hannam (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The unfortunate couple; or, The unkind father being a true relation of a squire's son, who having married his father's maid against his consent, was reduced to such great necessity, that his young wife died for greif, and his father denying him releif, he fell into sad dispair, and shot himself dead with a pistol, in his chamber in L-d-g-te-street on Saturday last. Tune, of orgive [sic] me if my looks thought &c. (London : printed for P. Markham near Bridge-water-square, [1700?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The faithful lovers downfal: or, The death of fair Phillis who killed her self for loss of her Philander Phillis for loss of her Philander, through each grove doth wander; until she hears by fate he's slain, which causes her so to complain: o're-whelm'd in tears, she does conclude, to end her life, which soon ensu'd; for with her fatal dagger, she stab'd to the heart, sets sorrow free; dying with patience, braving fate, that to her love did her translate. To a pleasant new play-house tune: or, Oh! cruel bloody fate. (London : printed for T[homas]. Vere, at the sign of the Angel in Guilt-spur-street without Newgate, [between 1650-1680]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A dialogue between a Quaker and his neighbour in Hertford, about the murder of Mrs. Sarah Stout ([London : printed for the author, and sold by the book-sellers of London and Westminster, 1699]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A full and true relation of the murther of Doctor Urthwait, Archdeacon of the Isle of Man; who in an inhuman and barbarous manner, cut his own throat, in Curriers-Hall-Court, within Criple-Gate, on wednesday the twentieth of this instant December; with several other circumstances thereunto appertaining. ([London : s.n.;, 1689]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Dialogue between a Quaker and his neighbour in Hertford, about the murder of Mrs. Sarah Stout (London : Printed for the author, and sold by the book-sellers of London and Westminster, 1699) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lewis Bayles Paton
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• Hermes und die toten (J. Dybwad, 1909), by S. Eitrem (page images at HathiTrust)
• The care of the aged, the dying and the dead. (C.C. Thomas, 1940), by Alfred Worcester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The care of the aged, the dying and the dead. (Thomas, 1961), by Alfred Worcester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation of inertial properties of the human body. Final report. (1975), by Richard F. Chandler, Charles E. Clauser, J. T. McConville, H. M. Reynolds, and Joseph W. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Injury assessment of belted cadavers. Final report. (1975), by L. M. Patrick and Robert S. Levine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sled tests of three-point systems including air belt restraints. Final report. (1976), by M. J. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sled test comparisons between three types of human surrogates. Final report. (1976), by M. J. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Response of belted dummy and cadaver to rear impact. Final report. (1976), by Anthony S. Hu, S. P. Bean, and R. M. Zimmerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Response of cadaver test subjects in belt restraints. Final report. (1977), by James M. Burkes, G. C. Lawrason, H. H. Peel, and J. Robert Cromack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Computer simulation of human thoracic skeletal response - volume I, theory. (1977), by M. M. Reddi and H. C. Tsai (page images at HathiTrust)
• Computer simulation of human thoracic skeletal response - volume II, THORAX programmer's and user's manual. Final report. (1977), by H. C. Tsai and M. M. Reddi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Head and neck injury seminar. (1978), by K. J. Saczalski, R. E. Winkler, H. A. Fenner, A. I. King, John D. States, I. J. Wagar, and 12-13 April 1977 Head and Neck Injury Seminar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mass distribution of the human body using biostereometrics. Final report. (1977), by R. E. Herron, J. R. Cuzzi, and J. Hugg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Performance testing of an improved driver restraint system for subcompact cars. Volume II - final report. (1977), by James M. Burkes, G. C. Lawrason, and J. Robert Cromack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pedestrian impact: baseline and preliminary concepts evaluation, volume I - summary. Final report. (1978), by H. B. Pritz, C. R. Hassler, and Edmund B. Weis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pedestrian impact: baseline and preliminary concepts evaluation, volume II - technical discussion. Final report. (1978), by H. B. Pritz, C. R. Hassler, and Edmund B. Weis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of human tolerance to side impact. Final report. (1979), by Raymond F. Neathery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Response of belted dummy and cadaver to side impact. Final report. (1981), by R. M. Zimmerman and S. P. Bean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Response of belted dummy and cadaver to rear impact. Final report (1980), by Anthony S. Hu and S. P. Bean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cross-sectional geometry and mass density distributions of humans and laboratory animals. Final report. (1982), by H. K. Huang and F. R. Suarez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analytical pedestrian accident reconstruction using computer simulation. Final report. (1986), by Xianmo Zhu and Timothy A. Hoyt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Injury study of the femur-pelvic complex in automobile crash environment. Final report. (1987), by A. I. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of head response to torso acceleration. Volume I - development of performance requirements. Final report. (1987), by C. H. Spenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of head response to torso acceleration. Volume II - description of data retrieval, analysis and display software. Final report. (1987), by C. H. Spenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quantification of occupant response and injury from impact. Final report. (1986), by Dimitrios Kallieris and Rainer Mattern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experimental pedestrian accident reconstructions - head impacts. Final report. (1988), by Timothy A. Hoyt, T. F. MacLaughlin, and John W. Kessler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comparison of human volunteer and cadaver head-neck response in frontal flexion. Final report. (1988), by Dimitrios Kallieris, Rainer Mattern, and J. Wismans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brain injury prediction using the translational energy criterion: an experimental study. Final report. (1992), by W. Vincent Burke, M. H. Hines, and R. L. Stalnaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A method for estimating the effect of vehicle crashworthiness design changes on injuries and fatalities. (1998), by J. Winnicki and Rolf H. Eppinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entomologie appliquée à la médecine légale (avec 5 planches) (Librairie Ollier-Henry, 1888), by Georges P. Yovanovitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Jenseits im Glauben der Völker (Quelle & Meyer, 1929), by J. Witte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safe handling of bodies containing radioactive isotopes, a guide for surgeons, pathologists, and funeral directors; recommendations. (U. S. Dept. of Commerce, 1958), by United States. National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safe handling of cadavers containing radioactive isotopes ([U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1953), by National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Normal abundance of radium in cadavers from the Pacific Northwest (Hanford Atomic Products Operation, 1956), by R. F. Palmer, General Electric Company, Hanford Atomic Products Operation, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sepulchres of our departed (Lindsay Blakiston, 1854), by Frederick Rinehart Anspach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anno quarto & quinto Gulielmi IV Regis : an act to abolish the practice of hanging the bodies of criminals in chains. (25th July 1834.) (Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, printers to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1834), by Great Britain, Andrew Spottiswoode, George Eyre, Great Britain Parliament, and Great Britain. Sovereign (1830-1837 : William IV) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die behandlung der leiche des selbstmörders. (F. Vieweg & sohn, 1899), by Richard Lasch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Débiteurs privés de sépulture ... (P. Cuggiani, 1885), by A. Esmein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Lehre der Beleidigung verstorbener (Schletter, 1905), by Karl Gemmingen-Fürfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissecting Room record. (1896), by Québec). Bindery Department Gazette Printing Company (Montréal, McGill University. Faculty of Medicine, and McGill University. Department of Anatomy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissecting Room record. (1883), by Richard Lea MacDonnell, Phillips & Bulmer Morton, McGill University. Faculty of Medicine, and McGill University. Department of Anatomy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The memory of the dead : sepulchres of our departed (Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1854., 1854), by F. R. Anspach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tinara, die Vorstellungen der Naturvölker vom Jenseits. (E. Diederichs, 1924), by Birger Mörner and Paul Hambruch (page images at HathiTrust)

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