A treatise on the incubus, or night-mare, disturbed sleep, terrific dreams, and nocturnal visions : With the means of removing these distressing complaints / By John Waller, surgeon the the Royal Navy.

  • Waller, John Augustine.
Date:
1816
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the incubus, or night-mare, disturbed sleep, terrific dreams, and nocturnal visions : With the means of removing these distressing complaints / By John Waller, surgeon the the Royal Navy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ing, and industry, for the admiration of posterity, as Willis has done; and al- though an English physician, and flou- rishing in the British court, there is no country in Europe in which his works are less known and admired than in that in which they were published. In his work DE anima BRUTORUM, of which no man will ever repent the reading, he treats of this disease in a distinct chapter, cap. vi. and places the seat of it in the cerebellum. The following short extract will give some idea of his hypothesis : cc Quamobrem Ephialtis paroxysmum in- duci putamus, quatenus inter dormiendum, una cum succo nerveo, materies quadam incongrua cerebello instillata, qua spiritus in prima scaturigine torporem, sive narco- sin quandam inducens, eos mox afunctionum suarum muniis paululum cess are cogit, pro- vide ut ab altero velut lethargo intra cere- bellum excitato, actiones vitales eclipsin brevem patiantur j qua durante, partim a praecordiorum obstrictoram lucta, partim-