Excerpt from Yours for Sleep
The object of this little volume is not only to help the sleepless sleep, but also to instruct them on a few of the principles of right living, a disregard of which is most often the sole cause of their disorder. For this purpose the more common causes of insomnia are considered at some length.
Many authors have been consulted, not only medical but lay also; for, as Oliver Wendell Holmes remarks: "Medicine, sometimes impertinently, sometimes ignorantly, often carelessly called 'allopathy,' appropriates everything from every source that can be of the slightest use to anyone that is ailing in any way, or like to be ailing from any cause. It learned from a monk how to use antimony, from a Jesuit how to cure agues, from a friar how to cut for stone, from a soldier how to treat gout, from a sailor how to keep off scurvy, from a postmaster how to sound the Eustachian tube, from a dairymaid how to prevent smallpox, and from an old market woman how to catch the itch insect.
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