Insomnia : its causes and treatments / by Sir James Sawyer.

  • Sawyer, James.
Date:
1912
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    A new edition of this treatise upon the great subject of insomnia, written from the points of view of a practising general physician, has been now determined by the exhaustion of the first edition of this book, (published eight years ago,) and by the accumulation in my hands of much additional material, such material arising in my daily notes of my practice in the prevention, analytical diag- nosis, and medicinal and hygienic treatment of this complex malady. This material has been digested long and with care and assimilated into the pages of this present work. This little volume consists of the first three chapters of my Contributions to Practical Medicine, as they stand in the fifth edition, 1912, of that book; for the convenience of my professional brethren these chapters are again offered to them in the form of a monograph upon the causes and treat- ment of insomnia. The third of these three chapters I have added to the other two as a summary of the practical side of the whole subject, exactly as I presented it in the article