What's the difference between somnipathy and somnopathy?
Somnipathy
Definition:
(n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Somnipathy in a prison shows of course considerable characteristics, although here, too, we can find the same problems a normal doctor working outside a prison has to cope with.
(2) The normal medical treatment for simple somnipathy is of no success in a prison and the prisoners abuse the normally used medicaments to get into a state of ectasy.
(3) 5% of somnipathy are due to an abuse of coffee or nicotine and the rest is due to emotional disturbances in the broadest sense.
(4) The majority of cases of somnipathy in elderly patients reveals a treatable cause, of the prescription of hypnotics becomes unnecessary.
(5) Physical diseases cause somnipathy within 19% of the older prisoners where we find predominantly heart-diseases and circulatory diseases.
(6) 54% of all the inmates of the prison in Straubing (= JVA Straubling) complain about somnipathy; from the prisoners more than 50 years old only 43%.
(7) Somnipathy represents neither an independent disease nor a nosological entity.