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The Premature Burial
by Edgar Allan Poe
- Cases
- The wife of a lawyer
- was in the city of Baltimore;
she was suffering an
inspected disease, she was
supposed to be dead and
had all the characteristics to
be dead
- Her faced was
contracted
- Her lips showed the usual marble pallor
- her eyes had no shine
lacked heat
- Mademoiselle
victorine Lafourcade
- A young woman of an illustrious family, rich and
very beautiful. she had fallen in love with a poor
litterateur but pride came to reject him and she
ended up marrying a diplomat monsieur who on
occasion was able to hit him. after spending
miserable years she died.
- was buried, not in a crypt, but
in a common grave
- his love went to look for her with the
romantic purpose of unearthing the corpse
and seizing her precious hair when he
found her alive when he reached the grave
- the vital pulsations had not completely
disappeared and the caresses of her
loved one woke her up as she had
been mistaken for dead
- An officer of Artillery
- Received a contusion after being thrown by a horse.
- Declared death.
- After his funeral a man declared feeling a commotion of the earth in the officer's grave.
- The people took spades and the head of the man appeared.
- Declared Alive in the hospital.
- The galvanic battery (medical experiments) killed him.
- man of gigantic stature and
excellent health. he was knocked
down by an indomitable horse
and suffered a very serious
concussion on his head
- Mr. Edward Stapleton
- Death of typhus fever.
- His body was taken from his grave three days after
his funeral to be dissect by some practitioners.
- The practitioners made an incision on
the abdomen of the man and applied a
battery inside.
- The practitioners made a
rough gash in the man
chest.
- The man arose
from the table.
- Stapleton was alive and restores to health.
- Narrator fears
- Catalepsy
- He was afraid
to be buried
alive
- sometimes the patient stays
a single day or even more
severe than exhilarated
lethargy
- Caractheristics
- Patients lie for a short
day or short period
- Senseless and emotionless
- Hearts pulsation faintly
perceives