Sleep and sleeplessness / Haydn Brown.

  • Brown, Haydn.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Sleep and sleeplessness / Haydn Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A PLAIN TALK TO SUFFERERS HUS have been explained to you two great being directed towards conditions, disorders, or diseases of which restlessness has been a symptom, the other acting directly upon the brain and nervous system by relaxing abnormal tension. Either is powerful and important alone, while it follows that an exercise of both in certain cases will be of corresponding value. The reader will hardly need the direction that either the former itself or a combination with the latter will be the more permanently curative. Whatever disorder or disease you may suffer from will appear to you in the form of signs or symptoms. You will perhaps not understand them —only a scientifically trained and practised medi- cal man can discriminate and differentiate between them at all accurately. Should you have pain, then understand there is no such thing as pain without a cause, and the pain itself is probably an indication of a disorder which is hidden. No remedy can be applied safely and with any possi- bility of perfect adaptability that is not selected under correct judgment as to the cause of the particular symptoms that are suffered from or the treatment of insomnia, the one