The following pages are the first two of the chapters of “Contributions
to Practical Medicine,” as they stand in the fourth edition, 1904,
of that book. They include my lectures on the causes and treatment
of insomnia, in the necessarily colloquial style in which they were
uttered. For the convenience of my professional brethren, these
chapters now are offered to them in a separate form in this little
book. Every word has been revised and many additions have been
made, by the fruits of later experience, for the sake of clearness,
completeness, and precision; this has been done with hope of usefulness
in medical practice, and with the aim of accuracy in diagnosis and
success in therapeutics.
31, TEMPLE ROW,
BIRMINGHAM, 1904.