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On the Use of Hypnotic Drugs in the Treatment of Insomnia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. Maule Smith*
Affiliation:
W. R. Asylum, Wakefield

Extract

Any drug which interferes with the workings of the higher cerebral functions is rightly regarded with suspicion, and the question of giving or withholding it is always open to doubt. Hence the difference of opinion with regard to the administration of hypnotics. In prescribing them the advantages have to be weighed against the disadvantages, and when that is done, and the former are in excess, then whatever disadvantages there may be have to be accepted since they are in the minority.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1905 

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