Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-01-23
WANTED "A NARCOTIC.
scmcthIng 70 soethe man 70 sleep wit
outs Producing After Pains,

sornething 20 soethe Man 20 sleep with
out Producing After Pains.
The danger Of using chloral to pro-
duce sleep appears in the case of ex-
Assemblyman Stillwell. of Kings Coun-
| ty, who took an overdose of that drug
TO relieve insomnia, started next morn
Ing in dazed state to make o visit near
by, and was found holding on to neigh
bor's fence with his skull broken and his
eyes blinded with blood. A popularity
OF chloral seems to be that you may
take it ninety-nine times with good eff
feet, and the hundredth time it may kill
you.
A narcotic without sting.is yet to be
found. Probably tobacco is the most
harmless of them all, and yet very bad
things are said Of that. Many Of them,
vastly beneficial in sickness and when
given by n doctor, are perfectly unfit
for habitual use, or to be administered
by the patient to himself.
OF too little sleep, and the remedies
for 1t, the Hartford Times says:
As this presence of blood in the brain
Is what prevents sleep, and ns emptying
the brain of blood necessarily produces
sleep, it would seem that anything, even
a drug that would expel the blood from
that quarter would be priceless boon
to the sufferer from insomnia. But the
reliance on any of the bromides, or, for
that matter, on any other drug, Is worse
than useless. 1t is positively pernicious
Hyper,emia, or the persistence of the
blood In remaining too long in the blood
vessels OF the brain, comes from the too
persistent use of that organ. Active
mental work keeps the blood In the head.
Nature ordained that the chief brain
blood-vessels should contract when one
lies down to sleep, and by contraction
expel the blood from the overcharged
brain, thus at once bringing sleep.
"Hyper@mia" is that condition of these
'blood-vessels in which, by months or
years of persistent fullness, as in bro
kers, preachers, editors, ETC., the blood
vessels have lost their power of contrac-
tility, hence they stay full of blood when
the sufferer ought to be asleep. The
suggestions of the writer whose letter
wo quote are, most of them, good, es-
pecially those favoring baths, bodily
exercise, and incoming" or let-up for
au hOul VI tWO Ut HOOu, lOT Tcst. I1OTSe-
,back-riding is another important RENE
dial agency, and most of all is tenn
perate, simple, regular habit of life in
eating, bathing, exercise, and in letting
up ia the hours of work. But there is
no cure of this great and growing evil
growing, we mean, in our American
cities-except a change in our habits as
a people. We must "let up on bust
ness" We overdo tive drive our
selves to death. 1t is not so abroad. On
the continent, especially, as in Ger
many and in Italy, they "take life easy"
have incoming" and shorter working
day, plenty of music and recreation,
and moro frequent holidays.
That is just what we in America have
got to come to: If not now, we have
got to do itilater, as a necessity abso-
lutely forced upon us. Our American
climate is more stimulating than any in |
Europe, hence all the more need for
our 'letting up" in this insane drive,
and going slow. Our little lives, the |
poet tells us, are rounded with a !
sleep. Nothing could be more desira-
BILE. But what's the use of driving our
lives, short as they are at the best, to a |
far more speedy ending. by this IRA
tioual spur and goad of the restless
American 'fever called livingp" -
Rochester Union and Aduocdte.