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Hypersomnia

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Dirk Klaasz. de Bakker ("the sleeping peasant of Stolwijk") asleep, attended by physicians unable to explain his disorder, surrounded by vignettes depicting Netherlandish cities and allegorical scenes. Engraving after B. van Kempen, and letterpress, 1706.
Kempen, B. van.Date: [1706]Reference: 571235i
Part of: Lust-hof van Momus.
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An exact relation of the strange and uncommon sleepy distemper of Dirk Klaasz Bakker, of Stolwyk ... : who slept from the thirteenth of July, 1706 to the eleventh of January, 1707, without any intermission, being the space of six months, and on the twelfth of the same month, being the next day, fell again asleep, and is at the present sleeping and alive ... / faithfully laid down by Paul Walwyk, Cornelius vander Zee, Henry Snellen, and Abraham Solomon vander Voort.
Date: 1707