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The art of natural sleep

Chapter 32: FOOTNOTES
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A practical manual for treating sleeplessness that reviews prevailing theories and characterizes sleep as the resting time of consciousness while identifying common physical and psychological causes of insomnia. It favors drugless remedies, detailing removal of physical contributors, relaxation techniques, rhythmic breathing, auto-suggestion, and a faith-informed Emmanuel clinic method, with concrete step-by-step directions and secondary aids. The author offers guidance for physicians and lay workers, stresses patient cooperation, and presents illustrative clinical cases and results. Interspersed commentary examines the value and limits of medication and aims to restore wholesome, natural sleep.

FOOTNOTES

1 Popular Science Monthly, September, 1903.

2 Manaceïne, 62, 69, 70.

3 Dr. J. Madison Taylor in the Popular Science Monthly, September, 1905.

4 Thomson’s Brain and Personality, 314.

5 Psychological Review, September, 1896.

6 Insomnia and Nerve Strain, 12.

7 Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease, 78, 355, 361, 457, 731.

8 Popular Science Monthly, September, 1905.

9 As the proof comes, the patient in question writes me that his insomnia was of the fitful type. He had so much trouble in going to sleep promptly that he formed the habit of sitting up late and inducing the sleep mood by reading. Since his treatment ended, he writes me (Sept. 12th), “This summer I have retired at nine o’clock with few exceptions, gone to sleep immediately, and risen at half past six in the morning thoroughly refreshed.”

10 See Dubois’s Psychical Treatment of Nervous Disorders, ch. xxiii, for the drugless cure of constipation.

11 The Heart of Good Health.

12 Psalm cxxxix., 7-9.

13 Thomas E. Brown.

14 Subsequent treatments are usually a logical development of this. See also Henry Wood’s New Thought Simplified. In the author’s next volume to appear in 1909, he expects to publish a complete series of suggestive treatments for nervous functional disorders.

15 It is perhaps unnecessary to explain that no charge is ever made for the Emmanuel treatment, though grateful patients sometimes make a thank offering to the church of which the Emmanuel worker is the Rector.