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THIS book is divided into four chapters dealing with the subdivisions of the title. A good account is given of the phenomena and theories of sleep. The chief abnormalities are well described, and the author includes an account of certain allied conditions, such as double consciousness and Latah. The references to general pathology in this section are apt to be somewhat antiquated, as when the mental enfeeblement of goitre is ascribed to withdrawal of blood from the brain. The subject of hygiene of sleep is evidently that to which the special work of the author has been devoted. She lays great stress on the proper management of sleep, and has somewhat novel views on the evils of prolonged sleep, and of fixed hours for sleep, and on the harmfulness of rocking babies in order to make them sleep. She describes very fully a condition which she terms the hypnagogic or half-awakened state, a condition characterised by increased suggestibility which is regarded as having an unfavourable influence on the mind if allowed to become well developed.
Sleep: its Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene and Psychology.
By Marie de Manacéïne. Pp. vii + 341. (London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1897.)
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Sleep: its Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene and Psychology. Nature 57, 172 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057172b0
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