Category: Health & Medicine
Definition of sleep--The invasion of sleep--The hypnagogic state--Depth and duration of sleep--Diagrammatic illustration of the phases of sleep--Modifications of physiological functions produced by sleep--Effect of sleep upon the processes of respiration, circulation, calorifi...
The harmonious activity of all parts of the nervous system is indispensable to the highest exercise of the conscious mind. Healthy intellectual life is the perfectly balanced ou...
13. CHAPTER VI.We have seen that in certain cases dreams manifest a tendency to pass into action. Thus, the dream with which I was on one occasion occupied became so amusing that I was awakene...
14. CHAPTER VII.The phenomena of somnambulism are of apparently spontaneous origin, during ordinary sleep. But from the remotest antiquity it has been known that certain persons may be thrown i...
8. CHAPTER I.Natural sleep is that condition of physiological repose in which the molecular movements of the brain are no longer fully and clearly projected upon the field of consciousness....
10. CHAPTER III.An occasional attack of wakefulness may fall to the lot of any one as a consequence of the various disturbances of health or equanimity of mind to which all are liable. Occurrin...
11. CHAPTER IV.Take thou this phial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou off; When presently, through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humor, which shall seize Eac...
9. CHAPTER II.Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee That thou no more wilt weigh mine eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? --KING HENRY IV, SECOND P...
1. CHAPTER I. THE NATURE AND CAUSE OF SLEEP.Definition of sleep--The invasion of sleep--The hypnagogic state--Depth and duration of sleep--Diagrammatic illustration of the phases of sleep--Modifications of physiological f...
5. CHAPTER V. DREAMS.Physiology of perception and of dreaming--Definition of the act of dreaming--Revery--Production of illusions and hallucinations by drugs and by disease--Effects of hasheesh--Eff...
2. CHAPTER II. INSOMNIA, OR WAKEFULNESS.Causes of insomnia--Affections of the organs of special sense--Effects of light--Effect of sound--Impressions upon the organs of smell and taste--Disturbances caused by a high t...
6. CHAPTER VI. SOMNAMBULISM.Causes of somnambulism--Physiology of somnambulism-- Varieties of the disorder--Maury’s classification-- Classification of Ball and Chambard--Diagrammatic representation of thei...
7. CHAPTER VII. ARTIFICIAL SOMNAMBULISM OR HYPNOTISM.Antiquity of the phenomena of hypnotism--Modern observations--Physical conditions favorable to the phenomena--Methods of inducing the hypnotic state--Duration of hypnotic sleep-...
4. CHAPTER IV. TREATMENT OF INSOMNIA IN PARTICULAR DISEASES.Insomnia in acute affections of the brain--In insanity--In chronic alcoholism and delirium tremens--In diseases of the heart and blood-vessels--In angina pectoris--In diseases o...
3. CHAPTER III. REMEDIES FOR INSOMNIA.Serious consequences of insomnia--Its relation to cerebral diseases--Treatment of insomnia by moderation and control of the cerebral circulation--Remedial agents--Nervous stimul...