| RefNo | CLP/14i/45 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, ‘A relatione of a strange sleeper’ by William Oliver |
| Date | [1690s] |
| Description | Oliver discusses the case of a healthy 25-year-old man who spontaneously fell into a great sleep for a month and then awoke and carried on his life as normal, but did not speak until a month after waking up. Two year later, he again fell into a heavily sleepy period. Oliver and others made experiments on the man during his sleeping spells, attempting to wake him up with spirit of sal armoniac [salammoniac], sticking a pin in his arm, and stopping his nose and mouth.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as ‘A relation of an extraordinary sleepy person, at Tinsbury, near Bath’.
Addressed to Richd [Richard] Waller in Crosbey Square Bishop gate Street [Crosby Square, Bishopsgate, London]. |
| Extent | 9p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1704.0109
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 24 (1704), p 2177 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA486 | Oliver; William (1659 - 1716) | 1659 - 1716 |
| NA6739 | Waller; Richard (c1646 - 1715); natural philosopher and translator | c 1646 - 1715 |