THE P R E F A C E.

CHAP. I. Of the history and the various opinions concerning the cause of this Disorder.

CHAP. I I. An enquiry concerning the real cause of the Night-mare.

CHAP. I II. An account of the Symptoms.

CHAP. I V. Of the Natural Cure.

CHAP. V. Of the concurring Causes of the Night-mare.

CHAP. V I. Of the Prognostics of this Disorder.

CHAP V II. Of the Cure.

FOOTNOTES:

By JOHN BOND, M. D.

LONDON:
Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham,
at Plato’s Head, in the Strand.
MDCCLIII.

To his Excellency

ARTHUR DOBBS, Esquire,

Governor and Captain General of the Province of North Carolina.

SIR,

YOUR extensive knowlege in every branch of useful and polite literature will sufficiently justify the propriety of this address, though it offers to your acceptance and protection an Essay merely medical. Besides, the subject I have chosen is in a great measure new, and must, I think, if successfully treated, prove highly useful. It seems therefore peculiarly intitled to your patronage, who are so judicious, so generous, and so zealous a promoter of every discovery which may tend to the public good. I shall not trespass farther on your patience, with the usual apologies of young Authors; nor on your modesty, with the trite panegyrics of Dedicators: the whole tenour of your life has render’d such encomiums superfluous; for you have always pursued the shortest and the surest road to fame, the real esse quod videri velis.

Though by this Essay I should acquire no honour from the judicious Sons of Æsculapius; this one however I am sure of, the subscribing myself

Your most obliged,

And most devoted servant,

John Bond.

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