A Chicago physician surveys what was known about sleep in 1885: its physiology, the causes of sleeplessness, dreams and how outside sensations shape them, nightmare, somnambulism and related states. Case histories enliven the account, such as a schoolfellow who dreamed of a dragon-fly when his nose was tickled with a straw.
A historical view of sleep science; its remedies belong to Victorian medicine and are not guidance for today. Download the free EPUB.