Sleep Science - 1953

roster · Post by **roster** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:44 am

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/ ... is=XL#qdig

You think all the problems with sleep just came up recently? Look back 56 years. Here is an article from June 1953.

It was interesting to me how many "technology aids" they mention that we still talk about today.

Catnapper · Post by **Catnapper** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:38 am

handcuffs? I don't remember that suggestion here.

tomjax · Post by **tomjax** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:10 am

Thgis article is a reflective trip down memory lane.
The Barbituates mentioned were the main sleep aid at the time, with the possible exception of chloral hydrate.
I do not recall the specific history of the initial awareness of sleep apnea, but this article does not even hint that such a condition existed.
Of course, it did, just not recognized.

As a pharmacist who started @ 1960, I remember well the evolution of sleep aids from that time to the present and all the problems that each presented.
Anyone remember Valmid, Noludar, Noctec, Seconal, Nembutal, Tuinal, Amytal, Quaalude, luminal, somnos?

Next came Dalmane, then restoril, now Ambien and the newer ones?

I am not sure there is such a thing as a perfect sleep aid or what one would look like.
IMHO, the absolute best sleep aid in the above became the worst abused.
If a person would take a Quaalude with a small glaass of wine and then go to bed, this would be almost perfect.

the problem cam when they took it for recreational purposes and pandoras box waas opened.
I remember those days well

roster · Post by **roster** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:01 am

tomjax wrote:............
I do not recall the specific history of the initial awareness of sleep apnea, but this article does not even hint that such a condition existed.
............

Tomjax,

My understanding of history is that the first description of sleep apnea was in 1965 and the first CPAP machine was in Dr. Sullivan's lab in 1981 or 1982. Does anyone have a link to a complete history?

Regards,

Wulfman · Post by **Wulfman** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 2:02 pm

https://www.cpap.com/history-of-sleep-apnea.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Dement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea#History

http://www.sra.org.au/sra/history.php

Den

boston · Post by **boston** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:12 pm

HANDCUFFS IN BED, i think thats another forum..............

RedThunder94 · Post by **RedThunder94** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:15 pm

nothing wrong with handcuffs in bed, makes life more interesting,

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