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.

Date:
1815
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    dbtrk r or new-york, ■ RE IT REMEMBERED; that on the fourth .lay of April, in the thirty-ninth jnr of the Independence of the United States of America, Henry T. Kiersted of the said district, has deposited in this oihcn the title of a book, the right whereof he claims its prot'rictor, in the words anrt figures following, to wit: Devotional oinn um ; or, a collection of Prayers and Exhortations, uttered by Miss ltachel Baker, in the City of New-York, in the Winter of 181.5, din me her abstracted and ious ^t\te. To wliich pious and unprecedented exercises are prefixed, an Aceou'-t of her Life, with the manner in which she became nowerfui in praise to God, and addresses to Man ; togetner with a view of th if faculty of the tinman Mind which is intermediate be- tween Sleeping :ind leaking. The Pacts attested by the most respectable Divines, Physi- 1 literary Gentlemen ; and the Discourses correctly taken hy clerical Stenogra- phers. By several medical Gentlemen. ' Many Daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest fr.em all.' In conformity to the act of the confess of the United States, entitled \n act for the encouragement of learning, by secui ihg the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors if such copies, dui in mentioned ; and also to an act ■ in act, supplementary to an act, entitled an act lor the i < ,,i leain- securing the coi/ies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors nt ^ucn conies, during the times therein mentione<l,and extending t >e benefits thereof to the irs of designing, enu'ravii'.if.and etching historical and other prints. TH t;oN Rt'OD, C'erk of the Southern District of New-! rj •