Sleep and sleeplessness / [Henry Addington Bayley Bruce].

  • Addington Bruce
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[1915]
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Credit: Sleep and sleeplessness / [Henry Addington Bayley Bruce]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the amount of intellectual or muscular effort previously expended, so that we often find men of intense mental or phys- ical activity —for instance, Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Schiller, Humboldt, Mirabeau, the English surgeon John Hun- ter, and our own Thomas A. Edison — getting along very well with four or five hours’ sleep a night, as compared with the eight or nine hours of less energetic individ- uals. Then, too, there is the familiar and most embarrassing occurrence of sleep in public places — the church, the theater, the opera-house — on the part of persons suffering neither from fatigue nor from any interruption to their regular night’s rest; and, opposed to this, the chronic wakeful- ness of the insomniac in the dark and quiet of his home, utterly worn out yet unable to sleep. _ These are only a few of the puzzling phases that have to be accounted for, and that have combined to baffle until now all |
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