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Snoring

Snoring has been plaguing the bedpartners and others, forced to listen to a snorer, for centuries. The solutions ranged from the rare radical ones, as exemplified by JW Hardin, the infamous gunfighter from Texas who shot and killed a loud snorer sleeping in the next room, to the most frequent passive submissive ones, as exemplified by many irate listeners finding a different place to sleep. Popular remedies for stopping snoring ranged from going to bed being" wholly unselfish in every thought" to sleeping with the mouth firmly closed by a tape or a gadget. The latter advice achieved a great deal of notoriety and credence after the publication in 1872 of a book by Cattlin who attributed good health of the native Indians to the fact that they are taught, from an early age, to sleep with their mouth shut, ie, to breathe through their nose. Following publication of this book there was a flurry of inventions, such as the one illustrated in Figure 1, designed to eliminate snoring by forced closure of the mouth. Despite this long-standing awareness of snoring and the havoc it creates in many bedrooms, it was firmly believed that snoring was nothing but a social nuisance, without any adverse health consequences to the snorer.

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