Devotional somnium, or, A collection of prayers and exhortations, uttered by Miss Rachel Baker : in the city of New-York, in the winter of 1815, during her abstracted and unconscious state : to which pious and unprecedented exercises are prefixed, an account of her life, with the manner in which she became powerful in praise to God, and addresses to man ; together with a view of that faculty of the human mind which is intermediate between sleeping and waking : the facts attested by the most respectable divines, physicians, and literary gentlemen : and the discourses correctly taken by clerical stenographers / by several medical gentlemen.

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Devotional somnium, or, A collection of prayers and exhortations, uttered by Miss Rachel Baker : in the city of New-York, in the winter of 1815, during her abstracted and unconscious state : to which pious and unprecedented exercises are prefixed, an account of her life, with the manner in which she became powerful in praise to God, and addresses to man ; together with a view of that faculty of the human mind which is intermediate between sleeping and waking : the facts attested by the most respectable divines, physicians, and literary gentlemen : and the discourses correctly taken by clerical stenographers / by several medical gentlemen. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Collection of prayers and exhortations, uttered by Miss Rachel Baker

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New-York : Printed for the proprietor, by Van Winkle and Wiley, 1815.

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288 pages ; 19 cm

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Cover imprint varies: New-York: Printed for the proprietor, by Van Winkle and Wiley,1815. For sale at the principal bookstores, and by the proprietor, H.T. Kiersted, no. 38 Hudson-Street, New-York
"It is the extent of his pretensions to give to the public, a collection of classified and authenticated facts; most of which are at once new and indubitable. Some extracts are also reprinted from the works of distinguished men in relation to the cause or causes to which such facts are to be attributed. ... "--Introduction, p. 10. Signed: John H. Douglass, M.D. April 24, 1815
Previous utterances of Rachel Baker were published by Charles Mais in 1814 in his The surprising case of Rachel Baker
"An arrangement of those parts of the phenomena of the human mind which belong to the function of somnium, by Samuel L. Mitchill": p. 25-74
"Excercises of Miss Baker, performed during her unconscious state": p. 168-282
Copyright Apr. 4, 1815 by Henry T. Kiersted
"Contents."--P. [287]-288
Film 633 reel 38 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 38, no. 660).

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 660
Shaw & Shoemaker 34568

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1957. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm. duplicate negative made from deteriorating acetate camera master

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