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Sleep disorders

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  • Dirk Klaasz. de Bakker ("the sleeping peasant of Stolwijk") asleep, attended by physicians unable to explain his disorder, surrounded by vignettes depicting Netherlandish cities and allegorical scenes. Engraving after B. van Kempen, and letterpress, 1706.
  • Dirk Klaasz. de Bakker ("the sleeping peasant of Stolwijk") asleep, attended by physicians unable to explain his disorder, surrounded by vignettes depicting Netherlandish cities and allegorical scenes. Engraving after B. van Kempen, and letterpress, 1706.
  • Nicholas Hart, a hypersomnic man. Line engraving by R. Graves.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The slumbering masses : sleep, medicine, and modern American life / Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer.

    Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J. | Date: [2012]
    • Books

    1in4zines. No. 2, Trichotillomania / lucysullivanuk.com.

    Sullivan, Lucy | Date: 2018
    • Books

    Sleep demons : an insomniac's memoir / Bill Hayes.

    Hayes, Bill, 1961- | Date: 2001
    • Books
    • Online

    Le sommeil normal et le sommeil pathologique, magnétisme animal, hypnotisme, névrose hystérique / par Emile Yung.

    Yung, Émile, 1854-1918. | Date: 1883
    • Pictures

    Dirk Klaasz. de Bakker ("the sleeping peasant of Stolwijk") asleep, attended by physicians unable to explain his disorder, surrounded by vignettes depicting Netherlandish cities and allegorical scenes. Engraving after B. van Kempen, and letterpress, 1706.

    Kempen, B. van. | Date: [1706] | Reference: 571235i
    Part of: Lust-hof van Momus.
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