Disease of mental health that involves disruption of sleep patterns

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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.

Nicholas Hart, a hypersomnic man. Line engraving by R. Graves.

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

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

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

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

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Sleep disorders

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

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

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

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.

Sleep disorders

Images from the collections

Images referencing Sleep disorders

Works from the collections

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

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

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

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.

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