{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_62492/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_62492","id":"gutenberg_62492","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62492","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Health & Medicine","Category: Psychiatry/Psychology","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Emmanuel movement","Insomnia","Sleep"],"text":"Transcriber\u2019s Notes\n\nObvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.\n\nFootnotes are located at the end of the relevant chapter.\n\nItalics are represented thus _italic_.\n\n\n\n\n                          By LYMAN P. POWELL\n\n\n                      _The Art of Natural Sleep_\n\n                           With Definite Directions for the\n                           Wholesome Cure of Sleeplessness.\n                           Illustrated by Cases from the\n                           Emanuel Clinics in Boston and\n                           Northampton\n\n\n                          _Christian Science_\n\n                            The Faith and Its Founder\n\n\n\n\n                                THE ART\n                                  OF\n                             NATURAL SLEEP\n\n                                 WITH\n                 DEFINITE DIRECTIONS FOR THE WHOLESOME\n                  CURE OF SLEEPLESSNESS, ILLUSTRATED\n                    BY CASES TREATED IN NORTHAMPTON\n                             AND ELSEWHERE\n\n\n                                  BY\n                            LYMAN P. POWELL\n\n            Rector of St. John\u2019s Church, Northampton, Mass.\n            Author of \u201cChristian Science: Its Faith and Its\n                Founder\u201d; Editor of \u201cHistoric Towns of\n                          the United States\u201d\n\n\n                          G. P. PUTNAM\u2019S SONS\n                          NEW YORK AND LONDON\n                        The Knickerbocker Press\n                                 1908\n\n\n\n\n                            COPYRIGHT, 1908\n                                  BY\n                            LYMAN P. POWELL\n\n\n                   The Knickerbocker Press, New York\n\n\n\n\n                                  To\n\n                                MY WIFE\n\n               WHO FIRST TAUGHT ME BY EXAMPLE THE MORAL\n                           VALUE OF SERENITY\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE\n\n\nThis little book, like my book on Christian Science which appeared a\nyear ago, is the evolution of a pamphlet.\n\nThe first half of the pamphlet was written in the middle of a sleepless\nnight some years ago. The last half was written about two years ago,\nafter I had found relief by auto-suggestion from the lifelong bondage\nof insomnia and had thereby doubled my capacity both for work and play.\n\nFirst published in the spring of 1907 as my weekly message under the\nheading of \u201cThe Parson\u2019s Outlook\u201d to the 5000 readers of _The Hampshire\nGazette_ in and about Northampton, the article on sleeplessness was\nrepublished by request in the same paper some months later; then, as\nthe demand increased for it, in pamphlet form. This year past it has\nbeen used in the Emmanuel Clinic, both in Boston and Northampton, with\nsuch gratifying results that more than 300 sufferers from insomnia in\none part of the country or another have testified by letter or by word\nof mouth to the benefit they have received from it.\n\nAt the suggestion of the Rev. Elwood Worcester, Ph.D., D.D., two\nmagazine editors, and two publishing houses, the pamphlet is now\nenlarged into a book with the earnest hope that the suggestions it\ncontains may be of service to many whom the pamphlet, privately printed\nand gratuitously distributed, could not reach at all.\n\nThere are books enough, perhaps, on the theory of sleep. The volume\nby Marie de Manace\u00efne on _Sleep\u2014Its Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene,\nand Psychology_ will surely long remain the standard work. Dr. Upson\u2019s\n_Insomnia and Nerve Strain_ is based on the author\u2019s discovery of the\nvaso-neural circuit and will not be neglected by those who wish to\nunderstand certain physical obstacles to sleep which have hitherto been\nlargely overlooked. _Religion and Medicine_, the official book of the\nEmmanuel Movement, is indispensable to any knowledge of the drugless\ncure of sleeplessness and other nervous functional disorders. And the\nwritings of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Dr. Woods Hutchinson, and Dr. J.\nMadison Taylor are, of course, of lasting value on this subject.\n\nThe purpose of this little book is very simple. It is designed to help\nphysicians, Emmanuel workers, and others who believe in the art of\nnatural sleep to aid those committed to their care. It is designed,\nalso, to be of service to the thousands who never go to anyone for aid\nin learning how to sleep, and to this end is kept as free as possible\nfrom all technical terms and all theoretical discussions.\n\nTo Dr. Worcester I owe the title of the book; to Rev. H. L. Taylor of\nthe Emmanuel Church staff certain of the illustrative cases from the\nEmmanuel Clinic in Boston; to Mr. W. P. Cutter, Librarian of the Forbes\nLibrary in Northampton, many special courtesies; and to Dr. Francis\nS. Wilson, expert diagnostician and experienced practitioner, goodly\ncounsel in the preparation of the book.\n\nTrusting that directly or indirectly this little book may set many an\nunhappy victim of insomnia free from his hard bondage, I send it forth\nin faith.\n\n  L. P. P.\n\n  ST. JOHN\u2019S RECTORY,\n  NORTHAMPTON, MASS.\n  September 15, 1908.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n                                                     PAGE\n\n  OUR NATIONAL DISEASE                                   1\n\n  THEORIES OF SLEEP                                      5\n\n  WHAT SLEEP REALLY IS                                   8\n\n  THE NECESSITY OF SLEEP                                12\n\n  INSOMNIA AND ITS CAUSES                               15\n\n  THE VALUE OF DRUGS                                    18\n\n  THE REMOVAL OF ALL PHYSICAL\n  CAUSES                                                25\n\n  GENERAL DIRECTIONS                                    29\n\n  SECONDARY AIDS TO SLEEP                               33\n\n  DR. LEARNED\u2019S PLAN                                    35\n\n  RELAXATION AND RHYTHMIC\n  BREATHING                                             38\n\n  THE EMMANUEL METHOD                                   43\n\n  FAITH REQUIRED IN GOD AND MAN                         47\n\n  THE SPECIFIC TREATMENT                                53\n\n  SOME IMMEDIATE RESULTS                                64\n\n  THE CO-OPERATION OF THE PATIENT                       67\n\n  THE ULTIMATE EFFECT                                   72\n\n  ILLUSTRATIVE CASES                                    74\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of Natural Sleep\n\n\nOUR NATIONAL DISEASE\n\n\nNeurasthenia is now our national disease. Nervousness, nervous\nexhaustion, nervous prostration, and kindred names are given to it by\nthe doctors. Whatever they may chance to call it, the doctors usually\nagree as to its causes, symptoms, consequences.\n\nEven the laity are now thoroughly informed as to the effect of\nneurasthenia on the nerves and on the mind. It wears the nerves\nthreadbare and robs the mind of all serenity. It steals the zest from\nwork, the joy from play. It frequently reduces its unhappy victim to\nthe single occupation of worrying by day because he fears he will not\nsleep at night, of worrying at night because he knows that worn and\nhaggard he will have no buoyancy and poise to play a man\u2019s part in the\nday to come.\n\nThe day\u2019s work is done, when done at all, with the feverish inquietude\nof the unrested brain. The evening\u2019s pleasures, when infrequently he\nventures to take part in them, are clouded by the listlessness the lack\nof sleep invariably brings. The silent night, when by any reach of the\nimagination it can be thus described,\n\n  Of fret, of dark, of thorn, of chill,\n\nis rendered hideous by the flitting of attention like a bird from\nbough to bough, by the random running of the memory down each unhappy\nrecollection of the past, by the deflection of the mental vision till\nit loses all perspective and disqualifies the sufferer to think\nstraight concerning even the trivial occurrences of everyday existence.\n\nNo wonder that in Kipling\u2019s story _At the End of the Passage_, when\nSpurstow finds his sleepless friend in the last stage of insomnia, he\nsadly but severely says, \u201cSleeplessness of your kind being very apt to\nrelax the moral fibre in little matters of life and death, I\u2019ll just\ntake the liberty of spiking your guns;\u201d and then as a safeguard, robs\nHummil of his rifle and revolver.\n\n\n\n\nTHEORIES OF SLEEP\n\n\nVarious theories have at one time or another been suggested to account\nfor sleep. Some are both bewildering and absurd. There was a time when\nit was seriously urged that sleep has in the thyroid gland its special\norgan, but when someone in the interest of the theory excised the\nthyroid gland, only to increase in certain instances the tendency to go\nto sleep and stay asleep, the theory was at once abandoned even by its\nstaunchest advocates.\n\nFinding that sleep usually follows fatigue, and that fatigue is a\nchemical phenomenon, the so-called chemical theory was next set up,\nand Sommer was quite sure that sleep comes as a consequence of the\nexhaustion of the reserve of oxygen in the tissues and the blood,\nand its replacement by carbonic acid during sleep. But here, too,\nexperimentation has been both inadequate and inconclusive.\n\nThe vaso-motor theory, as modified by Howell, that sleep is due to the\nan\u00e6mia of the cortical layer of the brain, which invariably takes place\nwhen the blood pressure in the arteries at the base of the brain falls,\nhas had a larger and a longer following. But convincing proof is yet to\nbe secured, and Dr. Percy G. Stiles of the Bellevue Hospital ends his\ndiscussion of the subject with a guarded inference that there may be\ntruth in both the theories, and that eclecticism is in consequence the\nwisest policy for the histologist.[1]\n\nFootnotes\n\n[1] _Popular Science Monthly_, September, 1903.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT SLEEP REALLY IS\n\n\nSleep, however we account for it, is \u201cthe resting time of\nconsciousness.\u201d[2] To be sure, there is no absolute arrest of brain\nactivity. There is always, even in the soundest sleep, some cerebral\nactivity.[3] We dream. We have nightmares. We sometimes work out\nproblems in our sleep which have defied our every waking effort. There\nis on record one instance of a college student who got up at three\no\u2019clock to solve successfully, while sound asleep, a problem he could\nnot work out at all before he went to bed. There is another instance\nwell attested of a British consul in Syria who, after tearing up letter\nafter letter which he wrote to a Lebanon emir, went to sleep in sheer\ndespair, only to find when he awoke in the morning, that he had written\nan elaborate letter which in every way satisfied the multitudinous\ndemands of Arabic diplomacy insistent to the last on all the niceties\nof Oriental etiquette.[4]\n\nByron was right. Sleep is neither life nor death. It is a world apart.\n\n        Sleep has its own world,\n    A boundary between the things misnamed\n    Death and Existence; sleep has its own world.\n\nConsciousness may be suspended. But the cortical centres are frequently\nas active when we are asleep as when awake. The attention can be\nmaintained with such unbroken steadiness as to awake some persons\nwith the exactness of an alarm clock on the very minute, even though\nfor purposes of deception the hands of the clock may have been set\nback without their knowledge. The motor centres can be counted on so\nconfidently that they will drive the somnambulist with the accuracy of\na trained chauffeur to his appointed destination. Sleep is, therefore,\nnothing more than a temporary suspension of a portion of the brain\u2019s\nactivity.\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n[2] Manace\u00efne, 62, 69, 70.\n\n[3] Dr. J. Madison Taylor in the _Popular Science Monthly_, September,\n1905.\n\n[4] Thomson\u2019s _Brain and Personality_, 314.\n\n\n\n\nTHE NECESSITY OF SLEEP\n\n\nBut that suspension is an absolute necessity to health of mind and\nbody. Men have been known to go for forty days without nourishment\nand retain unimpaired all the mental faculties. No man goes for\neven three days and nights without sleep except he pay a penalty in\nmental equipoise, and death itself is apt to bring his misery to an\nend, it is claimed, in five sleepless nights and days. Professors\nPatrick and Gilbert of the University of Iowa found, some years\nago, that in certain cases there were after two nights of complete\nwakefulness hallucinations, loss of attention, inability to remember,\nand unmistakable evidences both of mental disorganisation and physical\ndepression.[5] In Kipling\u2019s story, tragically true to life, Hummil\ndied after eighty-four hours of unrelieved insomnia, and the author\u2019s\nclosing words would seem to indicate that madness overtook him at the\nlast: \u201cIn the staring eyes was written terror beyond expression of any\npain.\u201d\n\nThe occasional genius like Napoleon may perhaps get on habitually\nwith four hours of sleep each night, and the mother watching by the\nsick-bed of her child may go for weeks in an emergency with but an\nhour or two of sleep at intervals, infrequent and irregular. But the\nsensible division made by Alfred the Great into eight hours for sleep,\neight hours for work, eight hours for play, will be as far as possible\nobserved by the right-minded and far-seeing everywhere.\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n[5] _Psychological Review_, September, 1896.\n\n\n\n\nINSOMNIA AND ITS CAUSES\n\n\nInsomnia reduced to simplest terms is nothing but the inability to\nsleep. While the causes of insomnia may sometimes be exceedingly\ncomplex, ordinarily they are evident both to us and those we love\nthe best. Anything, as we all learn by experience, which accelerates\nthe activity of the mind and increases the congestion of the brain\nis likely to induce insomnia. Worry, fear, grief, prolonged mental\neffort, any sort of emotional excitement, social dissipation, the\nintemperate use of coffee, tea, or alcohol are among the most familiar\ncauses of insomnia. Disturbances of digestion, neuralgic pains,\narterial disease, eye-strain, and dental lesions are the hidden causes,\noftener than we imagine, of protracted wakefulness.\n\nMany of the more obstinate cases of insomnia are due, we know at\nlast through Dr. Upson\u2019s remarkable book,[6] to some dental lesion\nunsuspected because, as is not uncommon, it is unaccompanied by the\nache habitually associated with all the ills to which the teeth are\nheirs. In my Emmanuel clinic I have had one case of insomnia which, in\nspite of all an efficient doctor could do for the body and the Emmanuel\nworker for the mind, persisted until I at last discovered that the\nsufferer was in immediate need of a dentist, whose threshold, through a\nmorbid fear, he had not crossed in many years.\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n[6] _Insomnia and Nerve Strain_, 12.\n\n\n\n\nTHE VALUE OF DRUGS\n\n\nFor insomnia there is no specific known to medicine. While the good\nfamily doctor may correct digestive disturbances, banish for the time\nneuralgic pains, modify arterial disease, relieve with the oculist\u2019s\nassistance eye-strain, and through the dentist remove the cause of\ndental lesions, sometimes insomnia persists long after the physical\ncause has disappeared. I have had in my clinic one case of chronic\nsleeplessness caused by a headache which appeared incurable though the\ncause of the headache and insomnia alike had vanished years before.\n\nDrugs which induce sleep induce it merely for the time. Doctor Caill\u00e9\nin his large experience has found morphia invaluable for the inhibiting\nof pain or of severe dyspn\u0153a, chloral and the bromides useful in cases\nof visceral neuralgia, codein and urethan in arteriosclerosis, and\nin pulmonary tuberculosis, where beer and porter failed to bring the\nlonged-for sleep, dionin, trional, and hyoscin. But in ordinary cases\nof insomnia, where the cause is evidently more psychical than physical,\nhe is inclined to turn rather to suggestion in one form or another.[7]\n\nDrugs are sure to make a difference in the morning. The dulness and\ndepression which they leave behind, in spite of all the claims of\nthose who put on the market their proprietary hypnotics, offset to\nsome extent the artificial sleep they have the night before produced.\nSometimes they fill the mind for days with morbid fancies and with\ndangerous obsessions. Dr. J. Madison Taylor describes in some detail\nthe case of a lunatic under his care who developed homicidal tendencies\nas a consequence of the administration of large doses of bromide, and\nwho lost the same the moment the bromide was withdrawn from him.[8] On\ncredible authority I am informed that there is among the alienists a\ngrowing disposition, on this account, to give no drugs at all to induce\nsleep in patients in the higher class of hospitals for the insane.\n\nMorphia is not only no specific; it sometimes causes both a mental and\na physical depression worse than the insomnia it would relieve. In my\nclinic I have one woman from whom morphia, administered to relieve\nacute pain, took away the power to sleep at all, and for years she\nstoically bore her pain rather than resort to morphia, until last\nwinter she found in the Emmanuel treatment immediate and unfailing\nrelief from pain, followed by sound sleep, which has only at rare\nintervals been interrupted in months past.\n\nPowerful as chloral is and useful in the thoughtful doctor\u2019s hands\nin various emergencies, especially in fevers where there is cerebral\nexcitement, it is a depressant, and he who contracts the chloral\nhabit invariably wishes at the last that he had waited for damnation\ntill after he was dead. Sulphonal, trional, veronal, paraldehyde, and\nthose proprietary hypnotics whose composition is withheld from the\npublic appear to be least harmful of all sleeping drugs. But they all\ninebriate or stupefy the fragile cells of the brain, none too solid in\nthe best of us; and in the psychically weak or emotionally excitable\nthey may even put the delicately constructed thinking organ altogether\nout of commission.\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n[7] _Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease_, 78, 355, 361,\n457, 731.\n\n[8] _Popular Science Monthly_, September, 1905.\n\n\n\n\nTHE REMOVAL OF ALL PHYSICAL CAUSES\n\n\nThough there may be no specific for insomnia in the drug store, the\ncomplaint can often be relieved when the cause is wholly physical by\nstriking at its root. If the general practitioner fails to relieve\ndisturbances of the digestion, the stomach specialist should be\nconsulted. One of my patients, who had for two years suffered both\nfrom insomnia and other troubles which had exhausted the ingenuity\nand the resources of the local doctors he consulted, began to improve\nas soon as a stomach specialist of national repute to whom I sent him\ndiscovered by chemical analysis of the contents of his stomach an\nincredibly excessive acidity, for which the proper prescription and\ndiet were at once suggested.[9]\n\nIn cases where insomnia is evidently due to some physical ailment\nwhich cannot be at once located, a visit to the oculist, the dentist,\nand even the throat and nose specialist should as a matter of course\nbe paid even if the patient has no conscious need of them. In at least\ntwo instances which have come under my observation, the insomnia\ndisappeared after proper treatment of the eyes and teeth and throat,\nthough two general practitioners had suspected nothing wrong in one\ncase with the eyes, and in the other a visit to the throat specialist\nwas never once suggested by the doctor who sent the case to me for the\nEmmanuel treatment.\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n[9] As the proof comes, the patient in question writes me that his\ninsomnia was of the fitful type. He had so much trouble in going to\nsleep promptly that he formed the habit of sitting up late and inducing\nthe sleep mood by reading. Since his treatment ended, he writes me\n(Sept. 12th), \u201cThis summer I have retired at nine o\u2019clock with few\nexceptions, gone to sleep immediately, and risen at half past six in\nthe morning thoroughly refreshed.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nGENERAL DIRECTIONS\n\n\nIn many cases no local ailment would appear to be responsible for the\ninsomnia, and yet in every instance attention must be given to the\nbody\u2019s entire needs. The habit of deep breathing from the diaphragm\nmust be developed and be regularly practised both indoors and out. This\nalone sufficed in one complicated case to bring sleep every night.\nThe diet must be carefully chosen and followed in the face of every\nimportunity of a silly and capricious appetite. Tea and coffee, save\nat the morning meal, must be in almost every case eliminated from the\nmenu. Constipation, which is responsible far oftener than we think for\nsleeplessness, must be, whenever possible, at once corrected without\nresort to purgatives and enemas.[10] The hot bath sometimes brings\nsleep by relieving the congestion of the brain, but contraction of the\nblood-vessels often follows with such promptness that the hot-water\nbottle applied to the feet or the back of the neck or both is likely to\nbe of more service.\n\nIf running up and down stairs or exercise in that wood-pile now\nimaginary in the average home leaves the sufferer as wide awake as\never, Doctor J. B. Learned\u2019s provision for taking exercise in bed\nwithout displacement of the covering will sometimes relieve both the\ncerebral congestion and the psychical exhilaration and let the wakeful\none drop off to sleep at the drowsy moment, which is apt to pass if\nthe exercise is taken out of bed and even scanty preparations have in\nconsequence to be made for retiring.\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n[10] See Dubois\u2019s _Psychical Treatment of Nervous Disorders_, ch.\nxxiii, for the drugless cure of constipation.\n\n\n\n\nSECONDARY AIDS TO SLEEP\n\n\nWhen the sleeplessness is due to mental strain alone the cure can be\neffected through the quiet mind. This is, I know, not always easy to\nobtain. Conditions do not always favour it. Economic pressure does not\ndisappear at will with prices rising and with factories operating on\nhalf-time. When the heart aches for\n\n          the touch of a vanish\u2019d hand,\n    And the sound of a voice that is still,\n\ngrief is scarcely to be put away without some seeming hurt to the best\nin us. For many a subject to insomnia the most that can apparently\nbe done is to stand cheerfully and confidently between him and the\ntemptation to grow morbid and melancholy, to keep the house as quiet as\ncircumstances will allow, to provide for the bedtime hour a glass of\nhot milk with its pinch of salt in it, the hot malted milk unsweetened,\nthe clam bouillon, the beef extract, or a cup of cocoa which every\ninsomniast should take before he goes to bed, and by day and night to\nsoothe, sustain, and cheer the troubled spirit.\n\n\n\n\nDR. LEARNED\u2019S PLAN\n\n\nThe physiological problem is uncomplicated. As Dr. Learned, who more\nthan a quarter of a century ago cured himself of habitual insomnia by\ngetting control of the respiratory and circulatory functions in the\nsleeping posture, has made clear, the problem is simply to shift the\nbelt of attention from the wildly whirling wheel of introspection to\nthe steadier wheel the will revolves.\n\nBy deep regular respirations, accompanied by rhythmical movements of\nthe head and hands and feet, Dr. Learned has frequently brought the\nwandering attention back from some side track it sought in fitfulness\nto the main line of the controlled consciousness. So surely has he in\nrecent years become convinced that the problem is usually psychical\nthat he no longer emphasises physical exercises in or out of bed.\nInstead he provides an ingenious little tablet on which the wakeful one\nwith unlifted pencil steadily records in waving lines his inhalations\nand his exhalations until at last, fatigued by the long exercise, the\nbrain becomes an\u00e6mic and sleep overtakes the drowsy mind.\n\n\n\n\nRELAXATION AND RHYTHMIC BREATHING\n\n\nTo Mrs. Annie Payson Call[11] and Dr. Emily Noble we owe of late the\nstress we lay on muscular relaxation and rhythmic breathing, which\npractised faithfully will now and then bring sleep where drugs are\nworse than useless. Muscular relaxation can be learned by any who\nwill take the trouble. The Delsarteans are already adepts at it. The\nletting of the arms drop limp by the side as one sits in an easy chair,\nthe letting of the trunk sink unsupported against the easy chair as\nthough it were sinking into a yielding bank of snow, the letting of\nthe head fall forward or sideways without resistance will furnish even\nto the slow of wits a visual image which will serve as a sufficient\npattern in the relaxation of the whole body.\n\nDr. Emily Noble, who has seen Oriental soldiers at the end of a long\nmarch throw themselves in complete relaxation on their backs, gives in\nher _Rhythmic Breathing plus Olfactory Nerve Influence on Respiration_\npossibly the most practical of all directions for the mature in the\nimportant art of relaxation. She bids him lie upon his back on a hard\nsurface, with head turned to one side in order to relieve the tension\non the muscles of the neck, with arms extended at right angles, with\nthe palms turned up, with feet turned out and spread for comfort at\nleast a foot apart.\n\nThe lungs are then to be cleared of their static air by a few deep\ninhalations, made through the left nostril because in the average man\nit seems to furnish a freer channel for the air than the right nostril.\nNext the insomniast settles down to lighter rhythmic breathing, which\nis nothing but the consequence of the conscious effort to make each\nexhalation equal to each inhalation. He should take the \u201cbreath in as\ngently as the fog creeps in from the sea.\u201d He should let it out \u201cas\nthe air goes out of little children\u2019s balloons when it is allowed to\nescape.\u201d\n\nAs with experience all feeling of conscious effort passes, he will have\na sense of letting go, the muscles will of their own accord relax, the\nquiet mind will come, especially if a pleasant thought be held steadily\nbefore it, the insomniast will stretch and yawn, take instinctively if\nhe be in bed the sleep position, and pass off into a dreamless sleep\nwhich will indeed knit up \u201cthe ravell\u2019d sleave of care,\u201d and make him\nready for a day of effective thinking and efficient action.\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n[11] _The Heart of Good Health._\n\n\n\n\nTHE EMMANUEL METHOD\n\n\nWhen sleeplessness can be directly traced to mental causes, the\nEmmanuel treatment, if experiments made both in Boston and Northampton\nare to be trusted, is as surely a specific as quinine for malaria. If\nin any instance medical diagnosis can find no physical reason for the\nsleeplessness, Emmanuel treatment is at once in order.\n\nThe sufferer is admitted to the Rector\u2019s study. The very atmosphere\nencourages frank speaking. Concealment of any fact or circumstance\nwhich bears upon the case is prejudicial to improvement. I have once\nafter three treatments refused again to see a patient who had failed\nto give me her whole confidence, until she was willing to speak out\nwith greater freedom. The physical habits are invariably considered and\ncorrected whenever there is need. Deep breathing is prescribed. Dr.\nLearned\u2019s method is sometimes suggested, and always Dr. Noble\u2019s. Drugs\nare from the first withheld. Tea, coffee, and all other stimulants\nwhich act directly on the brain are banished from the evening meal. The\nsufferer is encouraged as the bedtime hour draws near to give himself\nto such interests as scatter the cares and worries and obsessions which\nare then wont to gather like a cloud around the patient\u2019s head.\n\nFor some a social evening is suggested, provided it be not too\nexciting. For others the theatre, the symphony, or other form of public\nentertainment serves the same purpose. For perhaps a larger number,\nespecially the preacher, or the teacher, or the literary worker, a\nmagazine, a novel with no miserable modern problem in it, or a standard\nhistory will in a half-hour let down the mind to the sleep level. I\nknow one man who found Parkman\u2019s histories a soporific boon; another\nwhom Green\u2019s longer _History of the English People_ led on each night\nto wholesome sleep; another, the head of a large sanitarium, who\nsometimes saves himself from sleeplessness by reading after he has gone\nto bed as dull a book as he can find, and recommends the same plan with\nsome profit to his patients.\n\n\n\n\nFAITH REQUIRED IN GOD AND MAN\n\n\nThe main reliance, however, in the Emmanuel treatment is on faith,\nreinforced first by hetero-suggestion and then by patient and\npersistent auto-suggestion. The man who would be permanently free\nfrom insomnia must be an optimist. He must have a philosophy of life\nwholesome enough to keep him buoyant, cheerful, and serene amid all\nthe changes and the chances of this mortal life. With the Persian\nhe may hold that \u201cHe\u2019s a Good Fellow, and \u2019twill all be well;\u201d with\nSocrates that \u201cTo the good man no evil thing can happen;\u201d or with St.\nPaul that \u201cAll things work together for good to them that love the\nLord.\u201d\n\nWhatever language he may use in the formulation of his life philosophy,\nhe must believe with all his heart and soul that life in spite of all\nappearances is worth living, that there is love and goodness at the\nheart of things, that the word God, whatever be its content, does\nstand for a concept indispensable in our everyday existence, and that\nthere is somewhere, everywhere, One who, by a paradox as strange as it\nis true, is both the centre and circumference of all that has been,\nis, and ever is to be\u2014The Absolute and Unconditioned wherever we\nmay chance to be in time or space. \u201cIf I climb up into heaven, Thou\nart there: if I go down to hell, Thou art there also. If I take the\nwings of the morning: and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea;\neven there also shall Thy hand lead me: and Thy right hand shall hold\nme.\u201d[12]\n\nA man who wants that serenity of mind on which the soundest sleep\ninvariably depends must get right and keep right with God, whether he\ndefines Him in the terms of Persia, Greece, or Christianity.\n\nBut this is not enough. A man must be right also with his fellow-men.\nHe must love his neighbour as he loves his God. \u201cHe that loveth not\nhis brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not\nseen?\u201d He must have more than a languid interest in his brother. He\nmust wish him better than well. He must have done forever with sharp\npractice, hard bargaining, ungracious criticism, and that subtle\ndisloyalty which often through sheer cowardice stands mute while\nslander wags its tongue or envy shoots its Parthian arrows back as it\nretreats.\n\nWith the spirit\u2019s eye he must see even in the poorest and the meanest\nof his fellows some charm which others have not found. He must with the\nChrist insight pierce to the heart of the roughest boulder that was\never hewn from the hard mountain-side of seamy human nature and let\nloose the imbedded angel always there and always struggling to be free.\nNo man has any right to sleep, in fact to any of God\u2019s better gifts,\nwho goes through life with slanting eye and lowering brow sullenly\nprotesting to himself:\n\n    As I walked by myself,\n    I talked to myself,\n    And thus myself did say to me:\n    Look to thyself,\n    And take care of thyself,\n    For nobody cares for thee.\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n[12] Psalm cxxxix., 7-9.\n\n\n\n\nTHE SPECIFIC TREATMENT\n\n\nWhen the insomniast is ready to pay this double price of love to God\nand love to man for the peace that passeth understanding and that also\nbringeth sleep, he is ready for Emmanuel treatment. Seated in the\nMorris chair before the smouldering fire with curtains drawn, he is\ntaught to relax his muscles, the cortical layer of the brain is quieted\nby soothing suggestions, and then standing behind the chair the\nEmmanuel worker begins the treatment somewhat thus in a low monotone:\n\nYou are now relaxed in body and quieted in mind. You are to let your\nthoughts languidly follow mine expressed in words. Do not offer any\nmental opposition. I shall say nothing which your mind will not\ninstinctively accept and cherish.\n\nFix your thoughts on God. Think of Him not alone as the All-Father but\nalso as the Universal Mind in which your mind exists exactly as each\nindividual thought floats in your mind. Think of Him not merely as\nyour Heavenly Father but also as the Universal Spirit on which your\nsoul depends for every breath of spiritual life, just as your body is\ndependent for its every breath of physical existence on the air you\nbreathe. Believe that in this larger, higher, truer sense, \u201cIn Him we\nlive and move and have our being.\u201d\n\nNow Universal Mind or Universal Spirit is wholesomeness and love,\nharmony and power. Realise that when your soul breathes in the\natmosphere in which it lives it breathes in wholesomeness and love,\nharmony and power. But it is possible, in the exercise of the free will\nwith which you are in the nature of the case endowed, to fill up the\nsoul with morbidness and selfishness, disunity and weakness, so that\nthere is no room in it for God\u2019s wholesomeness and love, His harmony\nand power.\n\n    If thou couldst empty all thyself of self,\n    Like to a shell dishabited,\n    Then might He find thee on the Ocean shelf,\n    And say, \u201cThis is not dead,\u201d\n    And fill thee with Himself instead.\n    But thou art all replete with very _Thou_,\n    And hast such shrewd activity,\n    That, when He comes, He says: \u201cThis is enow\n    Unto itself\u2014\u2019t were better let it be:\n    It is so small and full, there is no room for Me.\u201d[13]\n\nYou do not sleep because you are \u201call replete with very _Thou_.\u201d You\nhave filled up your soul with thoughts of self, or thoughts of others\nfrom the point of view of self. You have worried when you should have\ncast your care on Him; \u201cfor He careth for you.\u201d You have yielded to all\nsorts of foolish fears, forgetful that \u201cperfect love casteth out fear.\u201d\nYou have been self-centred, though God Himself was so far centred out\nof self that \u201cHe gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth\nin Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.\u201d\n\nIn the silence of this quiet hour put your worries and your fears away\nand swing your centre out of self. Open wide the windows of your soul\nand let the Spirit in of wholesomeness and love, of harmony and power.\nBelieve the Spirit will come in. Interpret in the terms of Spirit those\nveracious words of Revelation: \u201cBehold, I stand at the door, and\nknock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to\nhim, and will sup with him, and he with me.\u201d\n\nWait for the incoming Spirit. Wait in faith and confidence. Remember\nthat \u201cThey that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they\nshall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;\nthey shall walk, and not faint.\u201d\n\nWith your mind filled with the Spirit of wholesomeness and love, of\nharmony and power, it will be at rest; it will know the peace that\npasseth understanding. All nerve-strain will go. Sleep will come\nto-night. Sleep will come to-morrow night. Sleep will come every\nnight. Sound sleep, re-creating sleep so long denied you, will be yours\nat last. The day will never know again its feverish inquietude. Work\nwill have its zest, and play its joy. The silent night will lose its\nmorbid fancies and its horrid nightmares, and you will each morning\nwake with the song upon your lips:\n\n    The dark hath many dear avails:\n    The dark distils divinest dews;\n    The dark is rich with nightingales,\n    With dreams, and with the heavenly muse.\n\nYou have done with sleeplessness forever. You go out from this room\nbeneath the rooftree of God\u2019s sanctuary, a new creature in Christ\nJesus. Claim your new privilege in Jesus\u2019 name. Act henceforth on the\ncomforting assurance that you are to go to sleep as soon as you have\ngone to bed, and sleep the whole night through.\n\nKeep by day as well as night the serenity you here have found. Awake\nwith the morning light into the thoughts of this first treatment. Keep\nthem in the background of your consciousness the whole day through.\nTake a few minutes every day to go into the silence as you now are,\nand think these thoughts again in proper sequence. Take them up into\nyour heart and brood upon them all the day. Work them into the warp\nand woof of your inmost soul so that \u201cneither death, nor life, nor\nangels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things\nto come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature\u201d shall be able\nto separate you from them. Make them yours and keep them yours forever\nand forever. And you shall sleep the sleep of the quiet mind and the\nGod-filled soul in all the years to come.[14]\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n[13] Thomas E. Brown.\n\n[14] Subsequent treatments are usually a logical development of this.\nSee also Henry Wood\u2019s _New Thought Simplified_. In the author\u2019s next\nvolume to appear in 1909, he expects to publish a complete series of\nsuggestive treatments for nervous functional disorders.\n\n\n\n\nSOME IMMEDIATE RESULTS\n\n\nAgain and again one treatment of this sort\u2014faith reinforced by\nreiterated suggestion\u2014has sufficed to break up the most obstinate\ninsomnia. One man on the verge of suicide from hitherto incurable\ninsomnia went home from this first treatment to sleep soundly for\nseveral nights thereafter. Another man on whom a heart-breaking\ndisappointment had swept down without a word of warning went home\nto sleep eight hours and a half for the first time in many nights. A\ntrained nurse so long on night duty that she had slipped her sleep cog\nto the demoralisation of her entire nervous system slept normally again\nafter but one visit to me.\n\nA college instructor sleepless on the verge of a new year of academic\nstrain thus secured the long night\u2019s sleep she coveted the day before\nthe opening of college. A wife and mother overwhelmed by a domestic\ntragedy after six weeks of drugged sleep went home from her first\ntreatment with a shining face to sleep ever after without taking any\ndrugs. A college girl worn sleepless by the heat and burden of earning\nher own living while she kept up her standing in the college, reported\nmarked improvement after her first treatment. And a neurasthenic who\nhad lost all hope of ever sleeping better slept so much better after\na single treatment that she insists in spite of all my protests in\nplacing her experience among the modern miracles.\n\n\n\n\nTHE CO-OPERATION OF THE PATIENT\n\n\nIn most cases, of course, more is necessary than one treatment.[15]\nSometimes a dozen treatments are required. And at every stage the\npatient\u2019s close co-operation is of utmost consequence. In fact, the\ncure can never be effected without it. To faith reinforced by the\nEmmanuel worker\u2019s suggestions must be added the auto-suggestions of the\npatient. He must will to keep the loving attitude toward God and man.\nHe must cease to worry about sleep. He must never mention his symptoms\nto anyone except the Emmanuel worker who is treating him.\n\nHe must cultivate a heavenly unconcern about himself. He must keep\nsaying to himself the whole day through: It does not matter anyway. If\nI sleep, well and good. If I do not sleep I will not worry over it. To\nlie awake at night is not so terrible as I once thought. Bed is for\nrest as well as sleep. The worry over lack of sleep hurts more than\nsleeplessness itself. Rest is possible even when I can not sleep. Happy\nthoughts will rob the darkness of its gloom and minimise nerve-strain.\n\nIf I keep still in my normal sleep position eight hours every night\nin bed, if I relax every muscle and let it stay relaxed; if I breathe\nlightly, regularly, rhythmically in a well-ventilated room, making\nsure the early morning light will not strike across my face and wake\nme up; if I simulate sleep in every way I can; if I shut out all\npreoccupation, expect each night to go to sleep, and steadily hour\nafter hour suggest sleep to myself in words like these I shall surely\ngo to sleep:\n\nI am going to sleep. I shall not lie awake. I cannot lie awake. I am\ngoing to sleep. The tired eyes are closing. The blood is flowing from\nmy brain to my extremities. There is no longer any pressure on the\nbrain. The muscles are relaxing. Sleep is stealing over all my senses.\nThey are growing numb. I am getting drowsy, drowsy. I am softly\nsinking into sleep, dreamless sleep. I am sinking deeper, deeper,\ndeeper. I am almost asleep. I am asleep, asleep, asleep. I am asleep.\n\nFOOTNOTES\n\n[15] It is perhaps unnecessary to explain that no charge is ever made\nfor the Emmanuel treatment, though grateful patients sometimes make a\nthank offering to the church of which the Emmanuel worker is the Rector.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ULTIMATE EFFECT\n\n\nEven if, in spite of this, one sometimes fails to sleep, one will at\nleast be free from the nerve-strain which a night of worry about sleep\ninvariably brings. And if, in the face of every discouragement and\nevery temptation to lapse from this wholesome attitude toward sleep,\none habitually practises each night some such auto-suggestions, he has\nforever turned his face away from chronic sleeplessness.\n\nHe may not always sleep at will. He may not always live up to the light\nvouchsafed to him. But he will sleep much better than he slept before.\nHe will be free from the morbidness and worry of insomnia. He will have\nfaith where he had fear, peace where he had the troubled mind, and the\nlight at eventide of a night which is not dark with griefs and graves.\nMore than this, he will sleep. He will sleep habitually\u2014to his body\u2019s\nhealth, his mind\u2019s contentment, and his soul\u2019s supreme delight.\n\n\n\n\nILLUSTRATIVE CASES\n\n\nI. CURED BY SUGGESTION ALONE\n\n\n_A.\u2014Waking Suggestion_\n\n1. The Emmanuel Clinic in Boston reports the case of a distinguished\nlawyer who after nine months of insomnia came to Emmanuel Church for\ncounsel. He was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His habit was to\ntake his work and worries every night to bed with him. He was advised\nto submit to the rest cure under a good neurologist. He replied that,\nwith important cases coming up at once for trial, rest was impossible.\nIn fact, he could at most spend a few hours in Boston. The causes of\ninsomnia were then explained to him. Suggestions were given looking\ntoward self-help. The importance of cheerful and uplifting thoughts was\nemphasised. He went away an hour later to report in a few weeks that he\nwas entirely cured and had not felt so well since he was a boy.\n\n2. Dubois (p. 340) speaks of a physician twenty-three years of age who\nhad suffered for nine months from persistent insomnia. By bromides,\nbathing, travel, and the cessation of all work, he had obtained only\ntransient results. Dubois drew his attention to the psychic causes of\ninsomnia, counselled the immediate abandonment both of the treatment he\nhad been giving himself and of all apprehension of insomnia. In a few\ndays sleep returned, the convalescent resumed his customary duties, and\nwas soon completely well again.\n\n\n_B.\u2014Profound Suggestion_\n\nForel (p. 252) describes the case of a working-girl who suffered for a\nyear and a half from extreme sleeplessness. All means for her relief\nfailed. Forel induced profound suggestion, let her sleep about an hour\nevery day while she was still in his clinic room, and after three weeks\ndischarged her completely cured and able regularly to sleep nine hours\nout of every twenty-four.\n\n\n2. CURED BY FAITH REINFORCED BY SUGGESTION\n\n\n_A.\u2014Inability to go to sleep on going to bed_\n\nA clergyman forty years of age had inherited a tendency to\nsleeplessness. Even as a child it was not uncommon for him to lie awake\nan hour or two after getting into bed. As he passed into his teens\nthe presence of his brother or a boy friend in the same bed would\ninvariably keep him wide awake the whole night through. At college the\nunusual strain of extra work or of examinations was likely to drive\nsleep entirely away, and only with the help of bromides at special\nseasons was he able to get through his studies and take his place at\nlast among the honour men.\n\nHis first years out of college were spent in graduate study and\neducational work, and were made miserable by the gradual increase of\ninsomnia, which shut him out of many social pleasures and impaired his\nefficiency.\n\nHis first ten years in the ministry were checkered by so many stubborn\nattacks of insomnia that he was more than once on the verge of a\ncomplete breakdown, from which the drugs the doctors gave him furnished\nonly temporary relief.\n\nTwo years ago, after six weeks of sleeplessness during which he had\nat his doctor\u2019s orders taken a hypnotic every night, he was able to\nsleep at most three hours out of every twenty-four and was haunted by\nobsessions and pervasive fears. When even morphia failed to induce\nanything more than extreme drowsiness and the heart\u2019s action was so\nweak that strychnine was prescribed to make it function properly, one\nsleepless night a physician peremptorily bade him keep in the sleep\nposition and never move, breathe regularly, keep his eyes closed as in\nsleep, and in every way imaginable to simulate sleep.\n\nThis proved to be the turning point in his experience. Sleep came night\nafter night in consequence of his unvarying obedience to the doctor\u2019s\norders. From one source or another he discovered how to relax and\nto suggest sleep to himself. Within a month he had learned to sleep\nat will, and only once in two years, when for some weeks there was\ncontinuous local pain, has his sleep been interrupted. The average both\nof physical and of mental health has been at least doubled, and these\ntwo years past he has done, without fatigue of mind or body, at least\ntwice as much work as in any two years of his life before.\n\n\n_B.\u2014Waking in the middle of the night_\n\nA widow, seventy-three years of age, suffering for twelve years from\nneurasthenia, was apt to wake about the middle of every night and to\ngo to sleep no more. The loss of sleep was bad enough, but the morbid\nfancies which invariably came in swarms sometimes all but drove her to\ndistraction. There was such a bad family history as to sleep and such\npoor circulation with its inevitable cold feet, that the physician\ngave me little hope of relieving her insomnia. During the first month\nof her treatment I, therefore, confined myself almost entirely to\nthe upbuilding of her faith by a course of optimistic reading and by\nsuggestion. I seldom spoke about her sleeplessness at all. To her\nsurprise and mine in a few weeks her sleep began to improve. At the\nend of two months, though she still awoke two or three nights every\nweek, no morbid fancies came. She filled up her mind with wholesome\nthoughts, repeated again and again the auto-suggestions on page 68,\nand usually awoke almost as much refreshed as though she had slept the\nwhole night through. Now after almost a year she reports what used to\nbe one bad night out of every four or five, but as compared with the\nbad nights\u2014four or five a week\u2014of former years it were better called,\nshe thinks, a good night than a bad one.\n\n\n_C.\u2014Waking early in the morning_\n\n1. A college girl of unusual ability and character had practically\nall her life been inclined to wake at two or three o\u2019clock in the\nmorning and often go to sleep no more; or if she went to sleep, to\nsleep badly and be subject to hideous dreams and horrible nightmares.\nAfter one treatment, June 15th, she began at once to sleep much better.\nThough she sometimes woke as formerly at two or three, she at once by\nrelaxation and auto-suggestion usually went off to sleep again and\nsuffered little from dreams and nightmares. She has had two treatments\nsince, and is not only much improved in body but is happier and more\nserene in mind.\n\n2. The Emmanuel Clinic in Boston reports the case of an unmarried\nwoman, fifty-two years old, who usually slept four hours a night,\nawaking at 2.30 and never sleeping more. Her treatment was begun June\n20, 1907, and was followed by immediate improvement. By July 1, 1907,\nshe was sleeping without waking eight hours every night, and reported\nAugust, 1908, that the improvement had become permanent.\n\n\n_D.\u2014Semi-sleep_\n\n1. A college girl had never had the feeling of being sound asleep. She\nthought she was half conscious the night through. What sleep she got\nnever seemed to refresh her. She came to me for treatment, February 7,\n1908, slept somewhat better for a night or two, and came back, February\n14th, 18th, 25th, for other treatments. On March 13th she reported\nthat though she was not completely cured she was sleeping more soundly\nand felt better in every way. There was in this case the unhappy\ncomplication of organic heart trouble.\n\n2. To the Emmanuel Clinic in Boston came, January 2, 1908, a clergyman\nforty-nine years old who reported that for years he had never slept,\nbut merely dozed. He gave up preaching in 1903; then resumed it only to\nabandon it again in April, 1907. After treatment from January 2nd to\nMarch 9th he was discharged, much improved, and on May 4th he reported\nthat he was still improving, and is now sleeping well from six and a\nhalf to seven hours every night.\n\n\n_E.\u2014Insomnia from psychical shock_\n\nA woman thirty-four years old was plunged into insomnia six years ago\nby the psychical shock which followed a violent attack made on her by\nan insane woman. Her habit afterwards was to lie awake for three or\nfour hours after retiring, and then to sleep about two hours every\nnight. Whenever she lay down to sleep, whether her eyes were open or\nclosed, she felt herself surrounded by people, some of whom had been\ndead for several years, and one of whom she fancied wished to kill\nher. To the hallucinations dizziness was often added. Bromides which\nshe had long been taking began at last to lose their effect. Treatment\nof her was begun at the Emmanuel Clinic in Boston on February 25,\n1908. By March 10th she was sleeping better, though not soundly, and\nfor thirteen nights the hallucinations had been absent. April 8th\nshe reported that the visions still came now and then but were fewer\nand less terrifying. By May 21st the dizziness had disappeared, the\nhallucinations had not come for several weeks, her mind was clear, her\nsleep was much improved, and she was sure that she was getting well.\n\n\n_F.\u2014Insomnia from family trouble_\n\nA mother forty-one years of age had suffered several family\nbereavements. Her children had been sick more than is common. Her\nbrother had been burned to death. She herself had undergone a surgical\noperation. For seven years she had suffered from insomnia, never even\ntemporarily relieved except by taking sulphonal, trional, etc. It\nseemed to be the fear of sleeplessness that usually kept her from her\nsleep. Under treatment at the Emmanuel Clinic in Boston from September\n21, 1907, to January 27, 1908, she steadily improved, and is now in\nevery way much better.\n\n\n                                THE END\n\n\n\n\n                         _A Selection from the\n                             Catalogue of_\n\n                          G. P. PUTNAM\u2019S SONS\n\n\n\n                       Complete Catalogues sent\n                            on application\n\n\n              _A marshalling of the evidence pro and con.\n                A summing up and an impartial judgment_\n\n                           Christian Science\n\n                       The Faith and Its Founder\n\n                        By Rev. Lyman P. Powell\n\n               _Crown 8vo. $1.25 net. Postage, 10 cents_\n\n\n\u201cI sat up one night reading this book as one reads a novel, which\nin the popular phrase, \u201ccannot be put down.\u201d I have rarely read so\ninteresting a volume of any kind. It is scientific, accurate, clear,\ncogent, unanswerable, and satisfying to the last degree. I am delighted\nwith it. The whole Christian world will thank you for it. I am going to\nuse it unblushingly in a course of sermons later on.\u201d\u2014_Cyrus Townsend\nBrady._\n\n\u201cA volume which is not the less destructive for its moderation, and its\nfairness. Mr. Powell\u2019s discussion of his subject is sane, temperate,\nand judicious, and his book merits the careful attention of all who are\ninterested either from within or without in the all-important subject\nof Christian Science.\u201d\u2014_Springfield Republican._\n\n\u201cA fine piece of work.... I can but feel that in your book you have\na little of the swing of Carlyle and the trust of Newman. I cannot,\nfor the life of me, see what you have left for anyone else to say on\nthe subject.\u201d\u2014_Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas, Church of the Holy Apostles,\nPhiladelphia._\n\n_Send for descriptive circular_\n\n                          G. P. PUTNAM\u2019S SONS\n                         NEW YORK      LONDON\n\n\n_\u201cA unique little volume, one which deserves the thoughtful\nconsideration of every practitioner.\u201d\u2014Sajou\u2019s Monthly Cyclopedia and\nMedical Bulletin, Philadelphia._\n\n                       Insomnia and Nerve Strain\n\n                        By Henry F. Upson, M.D.\n\n    Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System in Western Reserve\nUniversity, Attending Neurologist at the Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland,\n                                 Ohio\n\n         _Crown 8vo. With Skiagraphic Illustrations $1.50 net_\n\n\n\"An interesting theory in explanation of many cases of insomnia and\ninsanity is brought forth and illustrated by Dr. Henry S. Upson of\nCleveland, in his book on \u2018Insomnia and Nerve Strain.\u2019 Dr. Upson\nbelieves that very many cases of mania, melancholia, and dementia are\ncaused by defective teeth.\n\n\u201cThe work is technical, and for the profession rather than the lay\nreader. It will doubtless prove of great value as a contribution to the\nwarfare being waged against the mental scourges that fill our asylums\nwith young people on the threshold of productive activity.\u201d\u2014_Cleveland\nPlain Dealer._\n\n\u201cDr. Upson is, we believe, the first medical practitioner to write\nextensively on this topic and the first to accompany his writing with\nskiagraphs relating to his cases. His enthusiasm in this matter may be\nthe means of arousing a greater interest in it than hitherto has been\nmanifested by physicians.\u201d\u2014_New York Times._\n\n\u201cThe author has presented his conceptions in a most attractive and\nentertaining manner and time alone will say whether his deductions will\nrest on true scientific ground. The treatment of insomnia if carried\nout along the lines suggested will not only benefit a great number of\ndistressing conditions but will undoubtedly curtail the indiscriminate\nuse of hypnotics at present prevailing.\n\n\u201cThe closing chapter by Lodge on the technic of dental skiagraphy\nwill prove valuable to many engaged in this branch of practice.\nThe excellence of the reproductions is a pleasing feature of the\nwork.\u201d\u2014_Cleveland Medical Journal._\n\n                          G. P. 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