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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    INTRODUCTION, SLEEP is the intermediate state between wake- fulness and death: wakefulness being regarded as the active state of all the animal and in- tellectual functions, and death as that of their total suspension. Sleep exists in two states; in the complete and incomplete. The former is characterized by a torpor of the various organs which com- pose the brain, and by that of the external senses and yoluntary motion. Incomplete sleep, or dreaming, is the active state of one or more of the cerebral organs, while the re- mainder are in repose: the senses and the volition being either suspended or in action according to the circumstances of the case. A