A guide to health, or, advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints : with an essay on the scurvy, leprosy, and scrofula; also on a certain disease, seminal weakness, and a destructive habit of a private nature, to which is added, an address to parents, tutors & guardians of youth, with observations on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon.

  • Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to health, or, advice to both sexes in nervous and consumptive complaints : with an essay on the scurvy, leprosy, and scrofula; also on a certain disease, seminal weakness, and a destructive habit of a private nature, to which is added, an address to parents, tutors & guardians of youth, with observations on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INCUBUS, OR NIGHT MARE. The Incubus rarely seizes any one except in their sleep, and when the stomach is oppressed with aliment of hard digestion, especially if the patient lies on his back. Those that are seized with it seem to have a heaviness on the breast, and about the praecordia ; and if they want to speak they cannot. Sometimes they see spectres of various forms, and cannot get rid of the load, or remove the body but after a long struggle; at length the imaginary weight vanishes, but generally leaves a tremor of the heart, and fre- quently a quick and violent vibration of the dia- phragm. Those who are subject to this disorder ought to* eat little or no supper, to lie with the head raised high with pillows, and to take every night two table- spoonfuls of the Cordial Balm of Gilead ten minutes before going to bed ; to use plenty of exercise, and if possible the cold bath. The Cordial Balm of Gilead ought also to be taken in the day-time, as recommended in the General Directions, to which refer.