An experimental study of sleep (from the Physiological Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School and from Sidis Laboratory) . BOSTON: RICHARD G. BADGERZbt ©orbam press 1909 Copyright igroS by Boris Sidis, Rights Rese^ed z\)e (Porbam pre«6> 3i8o«ton, a. s. a. TODR. MORTON PRINCE in appreciation of his originality in Philosophy andPsychology and of his staunch friendship towards THE AUTHOR. Z2f CONTENTS Part I — Experimental Chapter I. Introductory Remarks . I Chapter II. Theories of Sleep 3 Chapter III. The Conditions of Sleep 9 Chapter IV. Intermediary States 14 Chapter V. The Induct
An experimental study of sleep (from the Physiological Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School and from Sidis Laboratory) . BOSTON: RICHARD G. BADGERZbt ©orbam press 1909 Copyright igroS by Boris Sidis, Rights Rese^ed z\)e (Porbam pre«6> 3i8o«ton, a. s. a. TODR. MORTON PRINCE in appreciation of his originality in Philosophy andPsychology and of his staunch friendship towards THE AUTHOR. Z2f CONTENTS Part I — Experimental Chapter I. Introductory Remarks . I Chapter II. Theories of Sleep 3 Chapter III. The Conditions of Sleep 9 Chapter IV. Intermediary States 14 Chapter V. The Induction of Sleep States . 19 Chapter VI. Experiments on Frogs . 21 Chapter VII. Experiments on Guinea-Pigs . 29 Chapter VIII. Experiments on Cats • 33 Chapter IX. Experiments on Dogs . • 39 Chapter X. Experiments on Children • 54 Chapter XI. Motor Reactions of Infants, Childrer I and Adults in Subwaking and Sleeping States 67 Part II — Theoretical Chapter XII. Chapter Cell Energy, Threshold, Stimulus-Exhaus-tion and Sleep . . . Motor Consciousness and Sleep . 759199. Cornell UniversityLibrary The original of this book is inthe Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions inthe United States on the use of the text. PART IEXPERIMENTAL Hypotheses non fingo —Newton, AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SLEEP Chapter I Introductory Remarks WRITERS on sleep complain that little attentionhas been paid to the subject, that it is sufficientto open a text-book on physiology to be con-vinced of the fact that the physiology of sleepis almost entirely neglected, inasmuch as the school-physi-ologist usually dismisses the subject with a few phrases,often quite general and devoid of meaning. It is quite truethat while one cannot as a rule be satisfied with the imperfectstate of textbook-physiology which usually lingers in the hindranks of the battle-ground of science, still one cannot blamethe text-books for avo
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