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Insomnia, and Other Disorders of Sleep

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First published: 1885
Pages: 196

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Insomnia, and Other Disorders of Sleep is an 1885 medical treatise by Henry Munson Lyman (1835-1904), the American physician and Chicago professor who served as professor of nervous and mental diseases at Rush Medical College. The book is one of the earliest English-language monographs devoted to sleep medicine as a clinical subject and surveys what was then known of the physiology of sleep, the classification of sleep disorders, and the medical treatment of insomnia, somnambulism, nightmares, and narcolepsy-like conditions. Lyman draws on continental neurological writing and on his own Chicago clinical practice. The book was widely read by late nineteenth-century American physicians and is a primary source for the early history of clinical sleep medicine before the polysomnographic era of the twentieth century. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Henry Munson Lyman

Henry Munson Lyman was a Chicago physician and medical teacher whose work joined physiology with the study of nervous disorders. Insomnia, and Other Disorders of Sleep appeared in 1885 through W. T. Keener. The volume considers ordinary sleep, wakefulness, dreams, sleepwalking, and the medical understanding of disturbed sleep available in its period.

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