Hammond, a former Surgeon General of the US Army, expanded his paper on insomnia into a full study of sleep. He describes the physiology of sleep as understood in his day, dreams and their causes in bodily sensation, prodromic dreams that herald illness, somnambulism, night terrors and wakefulness, illustrated with case histories.
A fascinating landmark in the history of sleep medicine; its remedies are of historical interest only and must not be followed. Download the free EPUB.