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Somnolence again overtook Janin; the violin slipped into the fragrant grass by the fence, but his fingers still clutched the bow.
The Happy End Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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Somnolence and drowsiness -- balm of aching hearts, angels of mercy!
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Somnolence and drowsiness -- balm of aching hearts, angels of mercy!
A journey in other worlds A romance of the future John Jacob Astor 1888
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The sphenoid bone as it extends up touches the base of the front lobe and of the Ideal region, where it assumes the name of Somnolence.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 1856
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-- As an experimental investigation I have many thousand times excited the organs of the brain in intelligent persons and made them realize or show the effects as I stimulated the intellect, the emotions, the passions or the physiological functions, so as to bring out Memory, Intuition, Somnolence, Spirituality, Love,
Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 1856
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The entranced or mesmeric state, in which the subject is in a dreamy condition with but little power of will and with extreme susceptibility, which is also a state of great mental clearness, may be produced by directly stimulating the proper organs with the fingers, which should be placed upon the organ of Somnolence on each side of the head, in the temples, about an inch horizontally behind the brow.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 1856
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Capacity, and in Ideality a region of Meditation (not marked) running into Somnolence, the region of Dreaming and of Transcorporeal
Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 1856
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Somnolence explains its supreme control over our emotions.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 1856
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The reason of these processes was entirely unknown until my discovery of the organ of Somnolence in the temples, and the corresponding region in the body showed that the results were produced by manipulations which concentrated the nervous action to those two locations.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 1856
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Somnolence was 6.0% in the active arm compared to 2.7% in the placebo arm.
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