An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

Permanent Link for Entry #14686

  • 12454

Le sommeil, tiers de notre vie. Pathologie, physiologie, hygiène, psychologie. Traduit de Russe avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Ernest Jaubert.

Paris: G. Masson, 1896.

Perhaps the first book on the physiology of sleep. The author examines the physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology of sleep, including the differences between the waking and sleeping states, the general phenomena of sleep, reflex movements, the brain during sleep, talking in sleep, attention during sleep, theories of sleep, the fear of darkness, the influence of light, dreams, etc.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Translated into English as Sleep: Its physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology. London: Walter Scott Ltd., 1897. Digital facsimile of the English translation from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Sleep Physiology & Medicine, PSYCHOLOGY, WOMEN, Publications by › Years 1800 - 1899
Permalink: historyofmedicine.com/id/14686