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The mind and senses are blunted, and breathing hampered, and the voice parched and awkward when the incubus takes hold. The humour that causes this swells around the heart, and the phlegm produced by excess of food and drink exhales a foul vapour that tautens the diaphragm, blocks up the passages of the lungs, and cloudily compels the brain and disturbs the mind with quivering images
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Du Port, F. (1988). The Signs and Causes of Incubus, or Nightmare. In: Diehl, H. (eds) The Decade of Medicine or The Physician of the Rich and the Poor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73715-2_30
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