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A hospital ward for insomniacs. Pen drawing by G.E. Studdy, 1910.

Boer War: soldiers in camp at Bloemfontein being provided with tea as they awake. Halftone, c. 1900, after R. Cleaver after C. Ross.

Men around a table yawning. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

Three people sitting yawning around a table. Etching.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: at 5.30 am, breakfast is brought to a sleepy ward and the mail is delivered to an eager patient. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

L'éternuement et le bâillement : dans la magie, l'ethnographie et le folklore médical / P. Saintyves.

A man in nightclothes yawning from reading a volume of 'Sleepy sermons'. Mezzotint, ca. 1771.

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Yawning

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A hospital ward for insomniacs. Pen drawing by G.E. Studdy, 1910.

L'éternuement et le bâillement : dans la magie, l'ethnographie et le folklore médical / P. Saintyves.

A man in nightclothes yawning from reading a volume of 'Sleepy sermons'. Mezzotint, ca. 1771.

Men around a table yawning. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: at 5.30 am, breakfast is brought to a sleepy ward and the mail is delivered to an eager patient. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.