Atropine, use of, with opiates, 87 Artificial sleep, effect of, upon the process of oxidation, 9 mode of production of, 22 Artificial somnambulism, 214 cataleptic form of, 219 lethargic form of, 220 recollection of the events of, 227 somnambulic form of, 222 three varieties of, 219 Assafœtida, use of, in insomnia, 110 Assimilation, rate of, in sleep, 5 Association of ideas, cessation of, in sleep, 3 effect of, 123 Asphyxia, 100 Asthma, insomnia caused by, 101 relieved by atropine, 69 relieved by chloroform, 82 relieved by ether, 82 relieved by iodide of potassium, 110 relieved by lobelia, 71 relieved by stramonium, 71 relieved by tobacco, 71 Atmospheric electricity, effects of, 46 Australia, effect of winds from the deserts of, 46 Azam, a case of somnambulic life observed by, 208 Bachelder, Dr. G. H., observations of, on the maladie du sommeil, 32 Baillarger, hallucination excited by dreaming, 126 Ball and Chambard, classification of the varieties of somnambulism, 169 Baths, use of, as nervous stimulants, 60 cold, 73, 95 in fever, 104 in insomnia, 112 in scarlet fever, 76 shower, 95 warm, 94 Bartholow, on the use of phosphorus, 71 Beard and Rockwell, on the use of electricity, 62 Beer, effect of, 76 Belladonna, 69, 100 use of, in asthma, 101 use of, in fever, 104 use of, in hepatic diseases, 102 Bismuth, use of, in gastric diseases, 103 Bladder, insomnia in irritability of, 90 Blisters, use of, in rheumatism, 106 Blood, control of its circulation by the nervous system, 26 Bombardment, sleep during, 1 Boussingault, experiments of, on the process of oxidation in the tissues, 9 observations of, on respiration in sleep, 6 observations of, regarding the bodily temperature in sleep, 7 Brain, consequences of inordinate excitability of, 159, 161 exalted receptivity of, during the waking state, 150 exalted susceptibility of, in sleep and dreaming, 144, 150 the, its division into separate mechanisms, 13 the, a reservoir of sensory impressions, 124 Brandy, use of, in wakefulness, 77 Bromide of potassium, use of, in insanity, 95 of sodium, use of, in chronic alcoholism, 97 of sodium, use of, in delirium tremens, 98 Bromides, the, 88 use of, in convulsions, 110 use of, in delirium, 77 use of, in fever, 104 use of, in night terrors, 112 use of, in pregnancy, and after parturition, 109 use of, with chloral and morphia, 86 Brooke, Lieut. J. M., observations of, regarding hypnotic clairvoyance, 224 Bronchitis, insomnia caused by, 100 insomnia of, relieved with paraldehyde, 80 Brunton, Dr. T. Lauder, his theory of counter-irritation, 62 Butylchloral hydrate, 83 Buschick, experience of, in waking before earthquakes, 144 Caffeine, effect of, upon the brain, 54