The Art of Natural Sleep / With definite directions for the wholesome cure of sleeplessness: illustrated by cases treated in Northampton and elsewhere

by Lyman P. Powell

[1] Popular Science Monthly, September, 1903.

[2] Manaceïne, 62, 69, 70.

[3] Dr. J. Madison Taylor in the Popular Science Monthly, September, 1905.

[4] Thomson’s Brain and Personality, 314.

[5] Psychological Review, September, 1896.

[6] Insomnia and Nerve Strain, 12.

[7] Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease, 78, 355, 361, 457, 731.

[8] Popular Science Monthly, September, 1905.

[9] As the proof comes, the patient in question writes me that his insomnia was of the fitful type. He had so much trouble in going to sleep promptly that he formed the habit of sitting up late and inducing the sleep mood by reading. Since his treatment ended, he writes me (Sept. 12th), “This summer I have retired at nine o’clock with few exceptions, gone to sleep immediately, and risen at half past six in the morning thoroughly refreshed.”

[10] See Dubois’s Psychical Treatment of Nervous Disorders, ch. xxiii, for the drugless cure of constipation.