Insomnia and Other Disorders of Sleep

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, New Age, History, Fiction & Literature
Cover of the book Insomnia and Other Disorders of Sleep by Henry M. Lyman, Library of Alexandria
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Henry M. Lyman ISBN: 9781465582294
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Henry M. Lyman
ISBN: 9781465582294
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English
The regularly recurring incidence of natural sleep forms one of the most important subjects for physiological investigation. Were it an event of rare occurrence, it would excite a degree of astonishment and alarm equal to the agitation now experienced by the spectator of an ordinary attack of syncope or of epileptic convulsion. But, so completely does the recurrence of sleep harmonize with all the other facts of life that we are as indifferent to its nature as we are to every other healthy function of the body. It is only when the mind has undertaken a critical observation of the bodily and mental changes which accompany and condition the phenomenon that we begin to comprehend its wonderful character. Ushered in by a waning activity of body and mind that no effort of the will can long resist, nothing could more forcibly suggest the idea of approaching dissolution if, from the very earliest period of unconscious infancy, we had not been accustomed to the dominion of this imperious necessity. The remarkable likeness between the fading of consciousness in sleep and its extinction in death has, in all ages and among all people, arrested the attention of poets and philosophers of every degree.
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
The regularly recurring incidence of natural sleep forms one of the most important subjects for physiological investigation. Were it an event of rare occurrence, it would excite a degree of astonishment and alarm equal to the agitation now experienced by the spectator of an ordinary attack of syncope or of epileptic convulsion. But, so completely does the recurrence of sleep harmonize with all the other facts of life that we are as indifferent to its nature as we are to every other healthy function of the body. It is only when the mind has undertaken a critical observation of the bodily and mental changes which accompany and condition the phenomenon that we begin to comprehend its wonderful character. Ushered in by a waning activity of body and mind that no effort of the will can long resist, nothing could more forcibly suggest the idea of approaching dissolution if, from the very earliest period of unconscious infancy, we had not been accustomed to the dominion of this imperious necessity. The remarkable likeness between the fading of consciousness in sleep and its extinction in death has, in all ages and among all people, arrested the attention of poets and philosophers of every degree.

More books from Library of Alexandria

Cover of the book Operas Every Child Should Know: Descriptions of The Text and Music of Some of The Most Famous Masterpieces by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians (Complete) by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book Rodney Stone by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book Eighteen Treatises From the Mishna by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" a Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book The Folly of Eustace by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book The Elect Lady by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book Ned in the Block-House: A Tale of Early Days in the West by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book The Adventure of Elizabeth Morey of New York by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by Henry M. Lyman
Cover of the book The American Novel by Henry M. Lyman
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy