Incubation : or, the cure of disease in pagan temples and Christian churches / by Mary Hamilton
A 1906 scholarly study by Mary Hamilton of incubation, the practice of sleeping in temples and churches to be healed, published in St Andrews and London for classicists, folklorists and historians of medicine. The single plate is the University of Glasgow's armorial bookplate, engraved in fine line and hatching: a shield with tree, bird, bell and ring-bearing salmon above a ribbon reading Via Veritas Vita, with a handwritten presentation date and shelfmark below.
