Sleep disordered breathing has come to public awareness in the last 10 to 15 years. However, the roots of medical knowledge about sleep disordered breathing reach back several hundred years farther. Greek and Roman publications reported heavy snoring and breathing pauses as diseases that impaired social life. In our day, popular comic strip figures like Obelix remind us that the mysterious noise of heavy snoring has been nerve-racking to people since ancient times.
Obelix
remind us that the mysterious noise of heavy snoring has been nerve-racking to people since ancient times.