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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    [77 5/ tuftom, which experience proves a very bad one. Van Sweiten fays, “ He Taw a Wo- « man, who, being fubjed to violent u affedions of the Mind, was bled <e above fixty times in one year. She u by that means grew very fat, and £t increas’d her weight 150 pounds in a few months. By bleeding often new Blood was generated, and the <* neceflity of bleeding became more ct frequent, ’till fhe was fo far relax’d, <c that fhe fell into a Droply-f.” He adds, “ That bleeding, which £t fome ufe by way of precaution, is u a bad cuftom, fince it weakens the Solids, and renders the Body more <c fubjedl to a frefh accumulation of S( Fluids.” Experience has convinced me of the truth of this obfervation ; for, while I pradis’d bleeding every month or fix weeks, I found the Night-mare re¬ turn’d on me at thefe periods, rather f Comment, in Aphorif. 106.