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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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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    them with one another. Indeed 1 know no way which a man has of convinc- ing himself that the vision which has occurred during a paroxysm of Night- Mare, (if it be consistent in point of time and place,) is not real, unless he could have the evidence of other persons to the contrary who were present, and awake at the time, or that these hallucinations were rendered familiar to him by fre- quent repetition. I shall mention some circumstances here, which have occurred to myself and to others, which will place this subject in a clearer point of view. The first case of this kind which I shall relate, I had from the mouth of a person of undoubted veracity, who ne- ver understood the nature of the hallu- cination ; but who, to the day of his death, was convinced that he had re- ceived a supernatural visitation. Mr. T , a dissenting minister, was on a journey in Suffolk, and slept at the house of a friend. He was desired by