The anatomy of sleep: or, the art of procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will ... with annotations and additions by Earl Stanhope
By: by Edward Binns
Contributors: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: John Churchill
Published: 1845
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
Subjects: Sleep; Hypnotism
Notes: Refr: Wellcome II, p168 Note: Edward Binns graduated MD at Edinburgh in 1828, and had a fashionable practice in Portman Square, London. As a physician he is only remembered as the author of the above work. The first edition, published in 1842, was the first recorded book to be printed using a typesetting machine. Due to opposition from London compositors the above second edition was typeset by hand in the traditional way.

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