Sleep and the treatment of its disorders / [R.D. Gillespie].

  • Robert Dick Gillespie
Date:
1929
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Credit: Sleep and the treatment of its disorders / [R.D. Gillespie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE This book was written primarily for the prac¬ titioner, with the object not only of indicating methods of treatment which he might employ in disorders of sleep, but of furnishing him, how¬ ever provisionally, with a rational basis for the methods recommended. In addition, since no comprehensive treatise on the problems of sleep has appeared in English for some years, so far as I know, theoretical implications that may interest the researcher have not been disregarded. Hence the first chapter, to take an example, contains a brief account both of the normal physiological phenomena in sleep and of some of their patho¬ logical variants, experimental and clinical obser¬ vations being as far as possible considered together. The position of the theoretical section at the end of the book is in accordance with the general plan; and it follows also the natural order, since even the most tentative theoretical conclusions can be satisfactorily based only upon a comprehensive survey of all the data, clinical and therapeutic as well as experimental. The clinical material on which the writer’s • • vu
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