A Most Sweet Sleep:
A Compendium of 19th Century Perspectives on Sleep, Rest and Dreams
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Discover the hidden realms of slumber in this new compilation, which weaves together a tapestry of 19th-century essays, medical treatises, poetry, and works of art, all centered around the subject of sleep. Every piece in "A Most Sweet Sleep" presents a different angle on the ageless human experience of sleep and dreams. Physicians' observations and scientists' theories come alive in these pages. Learn about the emergence of sleep medicine, the causes of sleep disorders, and the pursuit of the answers to peaceful sleep. Explore also the verses of poets and the intellectual musings of renowned thinkers as they grapple with the enigma of sleep in essays that delve into the physiological, psychological, and metaphysical aspects of our nightly voyages. Whether you're a scholar, a history enthusiast, or simply fascinated by the science and art of sleep, this book promises to enlighten, inspire, and transport you to a world where nightfall ignites the imagination.
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A Most Sweet Sleep
A Compendium of 19th-Century Perspectives on Sleep, Rest and Dreams
Published The Museum of Sleep, 2024
Edited by Dwight Swanson & Jennifer Accardo
203 pages. 6”x9”
CONTENTS
How to Sleep
Hall’s Journal of Health. Feb. 1854. Vol. 1, No. 2. Pages 43-45.
Anonymous
How to Get Up Early
Hall’s Journal of Health. Apr. 1854. Vol. 1, No. 4. Page 88.
Anonymous
Don’t Sleep Well
Hall’s Journal of Health. Oct. 1855. Vol. 2, No. 10. Page 241.
Anonymous
Position in Sleep
Hall’s Journal of Health. Feb. 1857. Vol. 4, No. 2. Pages 45-46.
Anonymous
How to Sleep Well
Hall’s Journal of Health. March 1871. Vol. 18, No. 3. Pages 49-51.
Anonymous
Necessary Rules of Sleep
Hall’s Journal of Health. Apr. 1888. Vol. 35, No. 4. Page 82.
Dr. Forbes Winslow
The Value of Sleep for Women
Hall’s Journal of Health. April 1891. Vol. 38, No. 4. Pages 83-84.
Anonymous
Necessity of Natural Sleep
Hall’s Journal of Health. May 1891. Vol. 38, No. 5. Pages 105-106.
Anonymous
Of Sleep; Its Utility, Causes, Its Varieties, Perturbances, Defect, Excess; of Their Irregularities, and of the Rationale, and Cause of Dreams; Translated from Dr. Gregory’s Conspectus Medicinœ
The Medical and Physical Journal. October 1810. Vol. 24, No. 140. Pages 279-285.
James Gregory
The Influence of Sleep over Disease
The Dental Register. June 1862. Vol. 16, No. 6. Pages 285-286.
Anonymous
Case Of Prolonged and Profound Sleep, Occurring at Intervals During Twenty Years
The British Medical Journal. June 13, 1863. Vol. 1, No. 128. Page 616.
W. G. Gimson
Sleep as a Poison
The Dental Register. Feb. 1870. Vol. 24, No. 2. Pages 103-105.
Anonymous
Cure for Sleep-Walking
The Dental Register. Oct. 1872. Vol. 26, No. 10. Page 417.
Anonymous
Sleep
The College Courant, Feb. 8, 1873. Vol. 12, No. 6. Pages 67-68.
Anonymous
Forced Sleep
The British Medical Journal. Feb. 3, 1877. Vol. 1, No. 840. Page 144.
Anonymous
Sending Plants to Sleep
Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal. Mar. 1877. Vol. 16, No. 5-8. Page 190.
Anonymous
Activity of the Mind During Sleep
Science. Oct. 16, 1885. Vol. 6, No. 141. Page 344.
Louis Agassiz
Sleep and Sleeplessness
The Hospital (London). Apr. 9, 1887. Vol. 2, No. 28. Pages 17-18.
Anonymous
Treatment by Sleep and Suggestion
The Hospital (London). March 23, 1889. Vol. 5, No. 130. Pages 391-392.
Anonymous
The Pathology of Sleep
The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology. Jan. 1852. Vol. 5, No. 17. Pages 67-81.
Anonymous
On Some of the Phenomena of Sleep and Dream
Psychological Society of Great Britain
Longman and Co., London, 1875
Edward W. Cox
Does the Mind Ever Sleep?
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Jan. 1877. Vol. 11, No. 1. Pages 72-78.
E. M. Chesley
Swedenborg’s Views on the Question: Does the Mind Sleep?
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. April, 1877. Vol. 11, No. 2. Pages 203-209.
B. G. Child
Sleep and Somnambulism
Science. Jun. 4, 1881. Vol. 2, No. 49. Pages 258-262.
Paul-Marie-Léon Regnard
Sleep and its Disorders
Pt. 1: The Hospital (London). Nov. 30, 1895. Vol. 19, No. 479. Pages 147-148.
Pt. 2: The Hospital (London). Jan. 18, 1896. Vol. 19, No. 486. Pages 265-266.
Tom R. Taylor
A New Method of Inviting Sleep
The Southern Medical Record. Oct. 1897. Vol. 27, No. 10. Pages 509-511.
John Barr Learned
Directions for the Management of Sleep
The Dublin Penny Journal. Nov. 30, 1833. Vol. 2, No. 74. Page 171.
Anonymous
The Times for Sleep and Study
The R. I. Schoolmaster. July 1856. Vol. 2, No. 5. p. 150
Published by Sage Publications, Inc.
Anonymous
Imagination During Sleep
The Massachusetts Teacher and Journal of Home and School Education. May 1857. Vol. 10, No. 5. Page 233.
Anonymous
Sleep a Few Moments
The Massachusetts Teacher. Nov. 1864. Vol. 17, No. 11. Pages 365-366.
Anonymous [“G.”]
Sleep
The Aldine Press. July 1869. Vol. 2, No. 7. Page 60.
Anonymous
How to Sleep
Bistoury. Apr. 1873. Vol. 9, No. 1. Page 134.
Anonymous
Supper and Sleep
The Hospital (London). Oct. 8, 1887. Vol. 3, No. 54. Pages 21-22.
Anonymous
Midnight Oil or Midnight Sleep?
The Hospital (London). Sept. 19, 1891. Vol. 10, No. 260. Pages 287-288.
Anonymous
Brain Rest and Sleep
Dental Register. June 1892. Vol. 46. No. 6. Pages 296-297.
Anonymous
The Sleeping Habit
Dental Register. Mar. 1893. Vol. 47, No. 3. Page 129.
Anonymous
Recuperating Effect of Sleep
Dental Register. Feb. 1898. Vol. 52, No. 2. Page 75.
Anonymous
How to Induce Sleep
Texas Medical Journal (Austin). Sept. 1898. Vol 14, No. 3. Pages 138-139.
Anonymous
Rest and Sleep
Medical Brief. 1899. Vol. 27. Pages 692-693.
J. Cam Anderson
Poems
To Sleep
Walter Savage Landor
Nocturne
Gerald Griffin
Child’s Evening Hymn
Sabine Baring-Gould
Bedtime
Francis Robert St Clair-Erskine, Earl of Rosslyn
Sea Slumber-Song
Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel
Half-Waking
William Allingham
Fragment of a Sleep-Song
Sydney Dobell
Day Is Dead
Augusta Webster
Rock Me to Sleep
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Night after Night
Gertrude Bloede
To Sleep
Maybury Fleming
Sleep
Alice Brown
In Sleep
Richard Burton
Insomnia
Francis Robert St Clair Erskine, Earl of Rosslyn
Sleep [The Dublin Penny Journal]
Anonymous
Sleep
Mrs. R. S. Nichols
Serenade
Mary Weston Fordham
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