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 is 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 noted by clerical stenographers / by several medical gentlemen. (1815)

Douglass, John H., DeWitt Clinton, Kiersted, Henry T., 1793-1882, Marks, Samuel, John Wesley Jarvis, Thomas Gimbrede, Van Winkle and Wiley, National Library of Medicine (U.S.) · New York : Printed for the proprietor, by S. Marks ..., 1815. · leaf 4

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