Devotional somnium, or, A collection of prayers and exhortations, uttered by Miss Rachel Baker : in the city of New-York, in the winter of 1815, during her abstracted and unconscious state : to which pious and unprecedented exercises are prefixed, an account of her life, with the manner in which she became powerful in praise to God, and addresses to man ; together with a view of that faculty of the human mind which is intermediate between sleeping and waking : the facts attested by the most respectable divines, physicians, and literary gentlemenn

Samuel Latham Mitchill; Rachel Baker

New-York : Printed for the proprietor by Van Winkle and Wiley, 1815

Original binding.  Split a spine center.  Covers worn and faded.  288 p.  Tear on p. 171-2. Includes (p. 25-105): An arrangement of those parts of the phenomena of the human mind which belong to the function of somnium, a state which is intermediate between waking and sleeping / by Samuel L. Mitchill. - Shaw et Shoemaker, 34568.  Austin, Early Amer. medical imprints 660.  "Previous utterances of Rachel Baker were published by Charles Mais in 1814 in his "The surprising case of Rachel Baker."  "It is the extent of his pretensions to give to the public, a collection of classified and authenticated facts; most of which are at once new and indubitable. Some extracts are also reprinted from the works of distinguished men in relation to the cause or causes to which such facts are to be attributed. ... "- Introduction, p. 10. John H. Douglass, M.D. April 24, 1815,