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  AN

  ESSAY

  ON THE

  Incubus, or Night-mare.

  By JOHN BOND, M. D.

  Ac velut in somnis oculos ubi languida pressit
  Nocte quies, necquicquam avidos extendere cursus
  Velle videmur, et in mediis conatibus ægri
  Succidimus; non Lingua valet non corpore notæ
  Sufficiunt vires, nec vox nec verba sequuntur.

  VIRGIL. Æneid. xii.

  [Illustration]

  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