Sleep : its physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology / by Marie de Manaćeïne.

  • Manacéïne, Marie de.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Sleep : its physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology / by Marie de Manaćeïne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE The Physiology of Sleep i The love of the Miraculous—Dreams as Suggestions of good or evil Spirits—Comparatively little attention given to the Scientific Study of Sleep—Changes in the Respiration during Sleep—Variations in volume of different parts of the body— The Pulse slackens during Sleep—Dilatation of the Surface Vessels—Contraction of the Vessels of the Brain—Increase of Perspiration during Sleep—Digestion and the Activity of the Internal Organs—State of the Blood during Sleep—State of the Peripheral Nervous System and of the Spinal Cord—State of the Muscular System and the Motor Nerves—Why it is possible to awake at any moment—Determination of the depth of Sleep—State of the Brain during Sleep—Slate of Will and Attention—Condition of the Pupils and of the Visual Axes—Why we close our Eyes in Sleep—Localising Theories of Sleep—The Vasomotor Theory of Sleep—Chemical Theories of Sleep—Histological Theories of Sleep—Defects of the Chief Theories — Yawning — The Psycho-Physiological Theory of Sleep—Sleep in Children and in Savages—Absence of Sleep in animals deprived of Brain—Caspar Hauser—Sleep in old age—Sleep regarded as a useless or injurious habit—Experi- ments on prolonged absence of Sleep in Animals—In Man— Sleep is the resting-time of Consciousness. I