Disease of mental health that involves disruption of sleep patterns

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.

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

1 print : engraving, with letterpress ; sheet 37.8 x 29.2 cm

Body clocks.

Morpheus and me : the complete book of sleep / by Phyllis I. Rosenteur.

xvi, 208 pages : black and whiteillustrations ; 24 cm

The twenty-four hour mind : the role of sleep and dreaming in our emotional lives / Rosalind D. Cartwright.

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

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.

Body clocks.

Morpheus and me : the complete book of sleep / by Phyllis I. Rosenteur.

The twenty-four hour mind : the role of sleep and dreaming in our emotional lives / Rosalind D. Cartwright.

Sleep disorders

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

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.

Body clocks.

Morpheus and me : the complete book of sleep / by Phyllis I. Rosenteur.

The twenty-four hour mind : the role of sleep and dreaming in our emotional lives / Rosalind D. Cartwright.

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