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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    often threaten’d me with immediate de- ftrudfion. Experience alio allures us, that large evacuations may be made by ftrong purges; fuch as Jalap, Scammon. &c. which greatly diiTolve, and diminiih the quantity of the Blood. Hence, we fee the reafon why Pani¬ ns Egeneta juftiy prefcrib’d Scammony in this Difeafe f. But in this kind of evacuations, Boerhaave’s falutary rule fhould be alfo obierv’d; viz. “Omiilione iC feniim introdudta.” *Tis needleis here to take notice of all the ill-adapted farrago of Medicines prefcrib’d by many of the old Physi¬ cians, who did not know the caufe of this Diforder. I cannot underftand why Piony was reckon’d, by them, fuch a famous Spe¬ cific for the Night-mare, which, taken internally, is only a gentle attenuant: and ’tis very furpriiing, that Dodtor Willis fhould be fo fuperftitious as to •f Lib. 3. cap. xv. recom- 3