1829 PALLONI, Gaitano (1776 – 1830)
Istoria di un sonnambulismo, con alcune riflessioni sopra questo fenomeno, e sul sonno; letta nella pubblica adunanza dell’Accademia Labronica.
This report on sleepwalking concerned Palloni’s treatment of a forty-year old peasant who for nine years would sleepwalk—often going into the fields, carrying his tools along, then returning later to the bed where he …
GMN 12679 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14924
1830 MACNISH, Robert (1802 – 1837)
The philosophy of sleep.
An early attempt at a comprehensive analysis of sleep from the medical point of view, including topics such as "Night-Mare", "Day-Mare", "Sleep-Walking," Sleep-Talking," Sleeplessness, Waking Dreams, Drowiness, Trance…
GMN 12445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14677
1842 BINNS, Edward (1804 – 1851)
The anatomy of sleep; or, the art of procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will.
This semi-popular work was one of the first scientific studies of sleep. It was also the first book typeset by a mechanical typesetting machine, rather than hand-set type. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this l…
GMN 7001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9167
1894 MANASEINA, Maria Mikhailovna (Marie de Manacéine) (1841 – 1903)
Quelques observations expérimentales sur l'influence de l'insomnie absolue.
The first experimental study of sleep deprivation. Manaseina "performed her experimental investigation on 10 puppies (2, 3, or 4 months old), fed by their mothers, by keeping the animals in constant activity. The expe…
GMN 12456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14688
1896 MANASEINA, Maria Mikhailovna (Marie de Manacéine) (1841 – 1903)
Le sommeil, tiers de notre vie. Pathologie, physiologie, hygiène, psychologie. Traduit de Russe avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Ernest Jaubert.
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 phenome…
GMN 12454 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14686
1907 GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
The border-land of epilepsy. Faints, vagal attacks, vertigo, migraine, sleep symptoms, and their treatment.
GMN 4821 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1628
1909 SIDIS, Boris (1867 – 1923)
An experimental study of sleep. (From the Physiological Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School and from Sidis' Laboratory).
Sidis emphasized his physiological approach in the wording of the title of this book. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14687
1913 PIÉRON, Louis Charles Henri (1881 – 1964)
Le problème physiologique du sommeil.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14679
1939 KLEITMAN, Nathaniel (1895 – 1999)
Sleep and wakefulness as alternating phases in the cycle of existence.
Discusses phases of the sleep cycle, experimental work on sleep and wakefulness, sleep disorders and their treatment, and such sleep-like states as hypnosis and hibernation.
GMN 12448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14680
1953 KLEITMAN, Nathaniel (1895 – 1999); ASERINSKY, Eugene (1921 – 1998)
Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep.
Aserinsky, one of Kleitman's graduate students, decided to hook sleepers up to an early version of an electroencephalogram machine, which scribbled across 1⁄2 mile (800 m) of paper each night. In the process, Aserinsk…
GMN 12449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14681
1957 KLEITMAN, Nathaniel (1895 – 1999); DEMENT, William Charles (1928 – )
Cyclic variation in EEG during sleep and their relation to eye movements, body motility and dreaming.
The authors conducted the first intensive study of the relationship between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and dreaming.
GMN 12450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14682
2013 DERICKSON, Alan (1948 – )
Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.
The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.
GMN 13295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15561
2015 CHOKROVERTY, Sudhansu; BILLIARD, Michel
Sleep medicine: A comprehensive guide to its development, clinical milestones, and advances in treatment. Edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty and Michel Billiard.
GMN 10724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12918
2016 SCHULZ, Harmut; SALZARULO, Piero
The development of sleep medicine: A historical sketch.
Extensively bibliographical. Available from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14684
