Extract, 'An account of a sleepy disorder with its uncommon cures in a letter from Rome dated April 25 1730' by unknown author
Reference number: CLP/14ii/30
Date: 25 April 1730
Description
The author shares an acccount of a woman who lived in Rome and could sleep for days at a time. Her family were only able to wake her up by laying her on the ground.
Subject: Physiology
Read to the Royal Society on 28 May 1730
- Reference number
- CLP/14ii/30
- Earliest possible date
- 25 April 1730
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 8 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Extract, 'An account of a sleepy disorder with its uncommon cures in a letter from Rome dated April 25 1730' by unknown author, 25 April 1730, CLP/14ii/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14ii_30/extract-an-account-of-a-sleepy-disorder-with-its-uncommon-cures-in-a-letter-from-rome-dated-april-25-1730-by-unknown-author, accessed on 22 April 2025
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