The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04

forge the jar and clash of machinery,
or the shrill whistle of escaping steam
in their ears, and waking with Il start
at any unfamiliar sound, or ut the
cessation OF the accustomed racket
il seems aN though man could never
suffer from sleeplessuess.'
"But will not excessive fatigue en-
plain sleep under such trying circum-
Stances
'Not satisfactory. Il am too tired
to sleep is common complaln.;whlle
in one case, that OF a night-watchnan
in a bank, cripple who has not
probably done days work in a dozen
years, the man sleeps with his ear
close to the incessant buzz and whir
of the burglar alarm and twice been
reused only to find a tramp or drunk
ard asleep on the steps outside the
bank. Once after had been treating
linn with medicine that slightly al
fected his hearing, this Waterman
complained bitterly that he was get
ting too deaf to Sleep and declared
tNat he was kept awake by not hear
ing the bur- lar alarm distinctly.
when you realize that the strong
est m,n may, in spite of his will, be
reduced TO the blind helplessness of
slumher by the droning Of friendly
bore, all accumulation of foul air, or
the temperature of the v>1ther, it
becomes still more mysterious to me
how slight "A thing will "murder
sleep, and work measureless mischief
to mind and body"
perhaps" suggested the expert
rienced reporter, San unquiet con-
science, domestic anXietles, an unpaid
debt"
"Fudge," retorted the doctor. 81
have seen man sleep soundIy and
TRANQUILITY up to an hour of his own
hanging; have seen my brother fall
asleep while waiting for his mother
in-law-a peculiarly wideawake anx-
iety she is, too-and ! should not be
sorry if a careless debtor were some
times kept awake; but you can lay
down no rule in these cases except
that each man is a rule to himself.
THE various eccentricities and
whimsical faucies of the men and
women who suffer from wakefulness
defy all rule. ami would be amusing
If they were not 81 dangerous to the
patient and so discouraging to the
doctor. There are many persons who
cannot sleep on the left side, others
who must have their heads to point to
some pet quarter of the compass,
patients who demand noise, like the
ticking Of clock, and others who
require perfect silence to enable them
to fall asleep. What, for instance,
do you think Of woman who cannot
Jr will not sleep in a room carpeted
with anything except straw mating,
and cannot sleep in the same room
more than ten consecutive nights? |
am assured and believe that she has
faithfully tried, again and again, to
exceed this ten-night limit; that
the eleventh night is invariably sleep
less, the twelfth excited, hysterical
perhaps, the next worse, and so on,
until, on two occasions when | have
been called, | can assure that her
condition was too critical to admit Of /
q suspicion of malingering.',
care women more subject to it
than men~
"Not in my experience, nor is it
confined to the physically or mental
j. weak among men. a well-known /.
athlete has assured me that, after
training for some important event, he |
used often to be thrown out of con
dition by sleeplessness for several
nights preceding the trial of strength /
until he discovered that he could al
ways sleep if the closet door in his
chamber were set wide open. Even
now, i'll travelling, if he occupies a
room without closet, he is certain to
lose his night sleep.
"a grave and and seli-contained
Judge" continued the physician,
"eyery night ties a black thread
tightly round the hig toe of his left
foot-the right won't do at all-and
with judicial gravity claims this as
certain cure for what he used to call
his might fits while class mate of
mine at college, now eminent and
eloquent clergyman, once coniided to
me, with much selt-reproach and pur-
turbation of mind, that whenever he
had an attack of lie plessness lie
became at once possessed by an
Irresistible temptation to say damn
and, that caballstic word, once utter
cd his unrest vanished and sleep came
at once. Think he said to me sol
EMMY, but with twinkle in his eye,
sol minister Of the Gospel becoming
irresponsibly proane for want Of
something to put him to sleep when
he has desk lull of old sermons in
the house
"lrrespohslDly prolane! we re-
peated.
"Quite SO. Maudsley declares in
somnia to be a frequent cause of IN
sanity, and ! am inclined to regard it
as one Of the most obscure OF mental
diseases"
''And the cureY
"Well, there is a grim humor about
giving a restless man the active
principle of hops to put him to sleep
but, as for permanent cure, the most
cures are those queer :
fancies of the patients themselves.
They may be absurd aud irrational,
but they are lasting, and taste better
than most medicines" II
There will be displayed in the Ex- p
rosition n six map of the S NE If o
\ Mississippi wrought by Moss 81