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Quotation from The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch

“Here the sick sought responses and the recovery of their health by sleeping in the temple.”

Thomas Bulfinch (spoken by Bulfinch)

The Age of Fable, Chapter XXXIV, Oracle of Aesculapius (Project Gutenberg #4925)

Portrait of Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch describes temple-sleep at Epidaurus and adds that ancient accounts have been compared to the mesmerism of his own day.

Citation: "Here the sick sought responses and the recovery of their health by sleeping in the temple." — Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable, Chapter XXXIV, Oracle of Aesculapius (Project Gutenberg #4925). (id bulfinch-age-of-fable-q8)

Portrait: ThomasBulfinch, Bulfinch, Public domain.

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