Insomnia
The following pages are the first two of the chapters of “Contributions to Practical Medicine,” as they stand in the fourth edition, 1904, of that book. They include my lectures on the causes and treatment of insomnia, in the necessarily colloquial style in which they were utt...
The following pages are the first two of the chapters of “Contributions to Practical Medicine,” as they stand in the fourth edition, 1904, of that book. They include my lectures...
2. Part 2In some other cases of intrinsic insomnia I think we may regard the malady as arising primarily in a perversion of the cerebral blood supply. Any cause which prevents the brain...
3. Part 3As I have already told you, there is a senile form of intrinsic insomnia. Remember that senility is a term of which the primary absoluteness is largely modified in particular ca...
4. Part 4In the toxic kinds of insomnia we must especially endeavour, as I have already suggested to you, to act upon the maxim, “_Cessante causâ cessat et effectus._” We must stop or le...