The philosophy of sleep / by Robert Macnish, LL.D., author of "The anatomy of drunkenness," and member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

  • Macnish, Robert, 1802-1837
Date:
1845
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Credit: The philosophy of sleep / by Robert Macnish, LL.D., author of "The anatomy of drunkenness," and member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    genious friends. Notwithstanding every care, the work is far from being what it ought to be, and what I could have wished; but, im- perfect as it is, it may, perhaps, stimulate some other inquirer to investigate the subject more deeply, and thus give rise to an abler disquisition. So far as I know, this is the only treatise in which an attempt is made to give a complete account of Sleep. The sub- ject is not an easy one; and, in the present state of our knowledge, moderate success is probably all that can be looked for. In the first edition, Dr Gall’s theory, that the brain is composed of a plurality of organs, each organ being the seat of a particular mental faculty, was had recourse to for the purpose of explaining the different phenomena of Sleep; in the present Edition, this doctrine