Excerpt from Elements of Animal Magnetism, or Process and Application for Relieving Human Suffering The Archbishop of Bordeaux, states in the thirty eighth volume of the Encyclopedia, edited by Diderot, d'alembert, &c., the case Of a young clergyman Who was in the habit of rising during the night in a state of somnambulism, and writing his sermons. When he had finished one page of his manuscript, he would revise it, after having read it aloud. In order to ascertain whe ther he made any use of his eyes, the Archbishop held a piece of paste-board under his chin to prevent his seeing the paper before him; but he continued to write on without being at all incommoded. Dr. Dwight mentions the ease of a somnambulist who every morning on awaking found himself minus a shirt. After thus losing about two dozen, and having no remembrance of what had become of them, his brother slept with him one night, to ascertain, if possible, what he did with his shirts. About twelve o'clock he arose, dressed himself and went out; his brother followed him to a pond, one mile distant; there he undressed himself and took his shirt and thrust it into a hollow log then bathed; after which he dressed himself, with the exception of his shirt, and returned, undressed himself, and retired to bed. In tue morning he awoke as usual and found his shirt missing; he inquired of his brother what had become of it; he told him that if he would follow him he would show it him; they went to the pond and there found it, and all the others, stowed away in the hollow log. A man in Massachusetts arose in his sleep and thresh'ed out his grain, and then retired to bed the next day he was much astonished, when he went to his barn for the purpose of threshing his grain, to find it already done. A girl in Albany is accustomed to rise in her sleep, and sew and do other unfinished work of the preceding day; but has no recollection, when awake, of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.