WINSLOW, Dissertation sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort, 1742
WINSLOW, Jacques Benigne || BRUHIER, Jacques Jean.
Dissertation sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort, et l'abus des enterremens & embaumemens précipités.
Paris, Morel le jeune, 1742.
12mo (162x100 mm), viii-364 pages. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in six compartments.
First french edition published juste after the first latin edition.
The French translation is by Jacques Jean Bruhier who is sometimes credited as the sole author of the book.
Book that will terrify the whole of Europe at the idea that we could be buried still alive and which will come for some to give an explanation to the phenomena of vampirism.
More than that, the exposure of these intermediate cases between life and death opens the way to a new discipline of medicine.
references: Garrison-Morton [11407 : "Between the mid-1700s and the early 1900s many physicians lost confidence in their ability to declare legal death. This phenomenon was in part sparked by Winslow, whose dissertation claimed the existence of a death-like state often referred to as “suspended animation.” In addition, it argued that victims to these conditions should not be pronounced dead, nor buried, until their bodies demonstrated overt putrefaction. "] Claudio Milanesi [ "La mort-instant et la mort processus", Revue Dix-huitième siècle, 1991, 23 : "Non seulement Bruhier théorisait l'existence d'un état ambigu, incertain, entre la vie et la mort, mais il donnait aussi une impulsion aux recherches sur la réanimation."].
Price : 500 €
