#sonambulism

--CONDITION-- This book is in poor condition. Leather. Front board is completely detached. Hinges cracked. Binding square. Good candidate for repair. Rare and hard to find book of curiosities. There is evidence of some moisture damage to text block; slight buckling, etc. Pages are fine, not sticking together; text block is crisp and clean. Four bands on spine. 481 pages plus index. --ABOUT THIS ITEM-- This book was self published by Joseph Comstock, a doctor and is wildly esoteric and inclusive of occult topics. TOC listed below. CНАРТER I. Preliminary Address, to all people who read, reflect, and reason. Varieties of style. Chaucer. Cicero. Biography. Milton. Addison. Celebrated Women. The Chinese. National Characters. Literature. Languages. Use of evil. The Crusades. The Holy Land. The refutation of atheism. CНАРТER II. Man, Matter, and Mind. Prolongation of Life. Fossils.' Remains of Giants. Volcanoes, and submarine Volcanoes. Geology. Niagara Falls. Theories of the World. Falling stones. Showers of stars. Formation of solids in the air. Stumps of trees ninety feet below the surface. Rafts. Coal beds. Mounds. Skeletons. The Deluge. American Antiquities. CHAPTER III Ancient Mounds and Fortifications. Remains of work shops, Walls, Pyramids, Palaces, and Cities. The Flood. Mr. Evans. Gov. Pownal. The Potatoe. Tobacco. Creation. CНАРТER IV. Superstition. Idolatry. Witchcraft. Dreams. Egyptian and Indian Magic. Somnambulism. Judicial Astrology. Phrenology. Animal Magnetism. Death of Julius Cæsar. Salem Witchcraft. Cases of Nancy Hazard, Jane C. Rider, Mrs. Cass, and Miss M'Evoy, who told colors by the touch. Seeing with the fingers. Hearing with the eyes. Optics. Sir Isaac Newton. Dr. Newton. Mr. Locke. CНАРТER V. Of burying, embalming, and burning the dead. Of visions, voices, and impressions. Cromwell. Lord Herbert. Pausanias. Anaxagoras. Ros-common. A premonition defeated. Prediction of snow in June, fulfilled. The Indian and his tamed snake. CНАPТER VI. Enthusiasm. Bonaparte's Russian Campaign. French and American Revolutions. Roger Williams. William Penn. Edmund Burke. Robert Morris. CНАРТER VII. Of Sleep. Dreams. Sleep watching, sleep working, and sleep talking. Hippocrates. Question of the legality of telling certain dreams. Remarkable cases. Opium and the Poppy. CHAPТER VIII Universality of deception. Fascination of serpents. Inquiry after universal opinions, and the common lot of mankind. Bishop Heber. The Veddahs. Mr. Marsden. Locke. Reid. 8tuart. Brown. The Craniology of Gall. The Quaker. Evil Spirits. Socrates. Plato. CНАРТER IX Life. Health. Death. The Soul. Sadden death of a Beauty. CНАРТER X. Theology. Ethics. Diet. Dress. Drinks and Diseases. Alcohol. Exercise. " Famine. Priestley. Johnson. Josephus. Trances. Resuscitation. Heat and Cold. Bishop Beveridge. CHAPTER XI. Of the Senses, passions of the mind, memory, judgment, association. The Will. Mr. Áléxander Alexander, and Point no Point. CHAPTER XII. Something of Politics. Vattel. Patrick Henry. John Randolph. Volcanic Waters. Thorlakson. Comets. Stimulus of Necessity. Uses of the Spleen. CHАРТER XIII Some farther notice of the sleeping preacher. Different opinions of her sleeping aud waking soul. Herod the Great. The Gymnosophista. Case of William Blatchford, Jr. Women bearing children at sixty years of age. CНАРТER XIV History and anecdotes of women. Of the best method of females managing property, and preserving their estates. Of prayer. Deceit. Singular Case. Hortense on optics. Conclusion. Item Dimensions: 8.25 inches x 5.0 inches