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DR. GILLESPIE, who is a member of the younger school of British psychiatrists, is to be congratulated on producing a most readable and at the same time stimulating book on what is one of the most interesting problems of modern physiology—sleep. The author provides us with a wealth of clinical material and discussion. He wisely points out that the effects of loss of sleep are by no means so serious as are generally presumed; at the same time there is no question that in the mentally disordered, loss of sleep is a serious question. Experience in a mental hospital soon provides confirmation of this. His discussion of the theories of sleep is well balanced and well set out. In discussing the treatment of the psychoses by means of prolonged sleep, we should prefer to see somnifen described as a mixture of the diethylamin salts of diethylbarbituric acid and allylisopropyl barbituric acid and not as a single substance.
Sleep and the Treatment of its Disorders.
Dr.
R. D.
Gillespie
. (Minor Monograph Series.) Pp. ix + 267. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1929.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Sleep and the Treatment of its Disorders . Nature 126, 199 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126199c0
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