An essay on the incubus, or night-mare / [John Bond].

  • Bond, John, M.D
Date:
1753
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Credit: An essay on the incubus, or night-mare / [John Bond]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As the Romans took little breakfaft or dinner, but made (upper their prin¬ cipal meal, ’tis probable, that they were very fubjedt to the Night-mare, efpe- cially during the Saturnalia, when they held all their repotia or drinking- matches, and indulged themfelves in all kinds of intemperance at night. Galen fays, “ That the Night-mare “ is a kind of an Epilepfy, which hap- <c pens in (leep ; and that if it conti- ££ nues long, it will turn to a real Epi- <£ lepfyf.” «■* An accidental Night-mare is not “ dangerous; but if it be habitual, it ££ threatens an Epilepfy, Apoplexy, or tc Melancholy, efpeciaily if the Perfon £t be fubjeft to a Vertigo in the day- ££ time. If it attacks one between ££ (leeping and waking, it denotes the ££ Epilepfy to be very near ; but it is ?£ remarkably dangerous, when a cold ££ Sweat, a palpitation of the Heart, t De Utilitat. Refpirationis. K 2 t( a