St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-13
Insomnia.

Insomnia.
HOW TO WOO sLUMBER- PANACEA
FOR SLEEPLESSNESS.
Insomnia is one of the most common
and perplexing of the disorders which
afilict the human race, according to the
New York Hour. Even healthy per
sons are at times troubled with sleep
leSsness, while the nervous and ailing
often trace their unhappy physical
condition to the impossibility of get
ting their required rest ut night. The
most skillful physicians have no pana-
cca for slecplcssness. Some persons
can sleep at will, no matter what the
hour of the day or the cares and re-
sponsihilitics of business or life. The
late Horace Greeley was case in
point. He could take his ''iOrty winks"
in church, in railway car or at his
writing desk, and, 10 doubt, the habit
prolonged his life. for he was frail of
body. with an over-actiVe mind and an
rXcitablc temperament. Napoleon |.
WAS noted for the ease with which he
went to sleep. For weeks ut Il time
two hours sleep out of the twenty four
was sufficient for him. He is reported
to have said "Dii1crcnt matters are
arranged in my head as in drawers |
npcn one drawer and close another us
wish. If | desire rcpoSc, ! shut up all
the drawers and sleep. | have always
slept when wanted rest, and almost
at will" This happy faculty is not
common, although III normally healthy
persons whose habits are regular,
sleep comes almost as soon as the head
rests upon the pillow. The newborn
babe spends most of its time asleep,
while. rs Il rule, robust persons require
less sleep than do those who are weak.
! According to John Wesley, who gives
| il aS his experience, after sixty years
! close observation, Il man III health re
uuircs from six to seven hours sleep,
and healthy woman from seven to
eight. The great founder of MethOdism.
who dabblcd in therapeutics ut times,
| declares that sleep sis preferable to any
medicine which have known. both for
preventing and removing nervous dis
ORDERS" Indeed, medicine is of very
| little avail in such cases. The phySi-
elan who prcScribes opium, chloral OF
! bromide of potassium, except III very
peculiar cases, knows he is doing
wrong. He is iniuring his patient per
mamcntlN, and aggravates the trouble
he is pretending to remove. I'm sleep,
it is only the brain and nervous sys-
TEN which are at rest. All the func-
tioms of the body go on rs usual. The
nervous centres are repaired anc
d. strengthened, and doubtless the brain
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