In Victorian times the diagnosis of death was not a certain one, with many accounts, no doubt some true, of people having revived after apparent death, and even after they had already been buried. This was particularly likely to happen in cases of mass dying and burial such as with a cholera epidemic when there was a wish to get rid of bodies quickly. Klinger has drawn attention to a thesis on premature burial by anatomist Jacques-Bénigne Winslow (1669–1760), a forebear of the Dr Lyttleton Forbes Winslow mentioned elsewhere.