자연수면의 기술.The Book of The Art of Natural Sleep, by Lyman P. Powell

자연수면의 기술.The Book of The Art of Natural Sleep, by Lyman P. Powell
PREFACE
THIS little book, like my book on Christian Science which appeared a year ago, is
the evolution of a pamphlet.
The first half of the pamphlet was written in the middle of a sleepless night
some years ago. The last half was written about two years ago, after I had found
relief by auto- suggestion from the lifelong bondage of insomnia andvi had
thereby doubled my capacity both for work and play.
First published in the spring of 1907 as my weekly message under the heading
of “ The Parson’s Outlook” to the 5000 readers of The Hampshire Gazette in and
about Northampton, the article on sleeplessness was republished by request in
the same paper some months later; then, as the demand increased for it, in
pamphlet form. This year past it has been used in the Emmanuel Clinic, both in
Boston and Northampton, with such gratifying results that more than 300
sufferers from insomniavii in one part of the country or another have testified by
letter or by word of mouth to the benefit they have received from it.
At the suggestion of the Rev. Elwood Worcester, Ph.D., D.D., two magazine
editors, and two publishing houses, the pamphlet is now enlarged into a book
with the earnest hope that the suggestions it contains may be of service to many
whom the pamphlet, privately printed and gratuitously distributed, could not reach
at all.
There are books enough, perviiihaps, on the theory of sleep. The volume by
Marie de Manace？ne on Sleep―Its Physiology, Pathology, Hygiene, and
Psychology will surely long remain the standard work. Dr. Upson’s Insomnia and
Nerve Strain is based on the author’s discovery of the vaso- neural circuit and
will not be neglected by those who wish to understand certain physical obstacles
to sleep which have hitherto been largely overlooked. Religion and Medicine, the
official book of the Emmanuel Movement, is indispensable to any knowledge of
the drugless cure of sleeplessnessix and other nervous functional disorders. And
the writings of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Dr. Woods Hutchinson, and Dr. J. Madison
Taylor are, of course, of lasting value on this subject.