The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-07-23
SLEEP AND HOW TO WOO IT.
CFrOm the New York Granhic.1


An article by Mr.. Frank Buckland,
which recently appeared in Land aa,d
Water, has naturally excited good deal
Of attention, since it gave expression to
some very decided views III regard to a
subject which always has been and al.
ways will be of interest to mankind
sleep, that mental death from which man
is born anew in mind and body-the true
fountain of youth which Ponce dc Leon
sought in Florida and found in his bed.
Mr.. auckland, who gave the first great
impulse to the study of geology in Eng
land, and whose Bridgewater treatise on
Sociology and Mineralogy Considered
with reference to Natural Theology has,
with general readers, always been the
most popular Ct the series. Mr.. Buck
land runs counter to generally received
opinion in reference to sleep, by telling
the story Of how his father worked, who,
being exceedingly busy during the day,
dincd heartily at seven o'clock
in the evening and Immediately
went to bed and slept till about
ten, when he rose and wrote till two or
three in the morning. Before retiring
for the second time he ate pudding or a
sandwich, and having thus ''diverted tho
blood from his brain to his stomach, -
slept the sleep Of the orthodox till he felt
like getting up III the later morning. I'm.
doubtcdly it is the generally received
opinion laid down as doctrine in works
on hygiene that sleep should be sought
on a nearly empty stomach, and that to
yield to the gentle god Immediately after
discussing hearty meal leads to disar-
rangements of the liver and stomach,
and produces distinct tendency to apo.
plexy.
There is hardly subject OF the regime
of life which has attracted more discus
sion than the overcoming of insomnia
And this is as it should be, for all the
world knows that sleeplessness is curse
such as life has few to offer. Doctors
tell us that if long protracted it leads to
mental disorder, Of which also
it is not infrequcntly one
of the earliest symptoms,
The old books Of medicine are full of rem
edies for it, and quaint old Burton, in
his "Anatomy Of Melancholy" much
doth talk thereon, and scnsibly saith
AuuicW DOrQC COmmcnucIn lIlC1ClOn,
but for his own part he finds nothing
more efficacious than a "toast and ale, 81
posset Of the same" That there is q
great deal of truth in this remark rs ap
piled to persons of full but nervous
habit, who have much brain-work to do
there is no doubt. In winter ale will pro
duce fine sense of fullncss in the stom
ach, and if it be not partakcn of in guam
titles which would have satisfied and die
kill King John, it doubtless does employ
the blood in healthier work than it find:
in running through the ovcr-wrought al
leys Of the brain and filling them will
fantastic thoughts and forms. One o.
our most eminent physicians has lately
| expressed his views on this point, ant
finds in lager beer stuff which will
] 'Pluck from the memory rooted 'rrow,
Rae out tie written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet, oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom OF that perilous stuf
Which weighs upon the hea't"--
! and prevent sleep, the t'oblivious anti
dote - Of all ills to the healthy brain, bu
the provoker of all fantastic demons ant