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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    CHAP VII, Of the Cure. WHEN People are found in a fit of the Night-mare, the moft effe&ual remedy is to roule them as foon as pollible, by changing the pofi- tion of the Body, and applying fome keen ftimulus immediately, fuch as pricking with a pin, fpeaking loud, See. and if they recover the lead; degree of voluntary motion, the happy crifis is for that time obtain’d, as Actuarius and Willis obferv’d. I have often been fo much opprefs’d by this enemy of re 11, that I would have given ten thou fan d worlds like this for fome Perfon that would either pinch, fhake, or turn me off my Back; and I have been fo much afraid of its intolerable infults, that I have flept in a chair all night, rather than give it an opportunity of attacking me in an horizontal pofition. Dodlor