Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-25
Sleeples sness.

Sleeplessness, in probably nine cases GU
| of ten, is caused by continual mental strair
| or worry. The capillaries of the brain be
| come stretched and lose their resiliency
| thev are unable therefore to empty them
selves OF blood when the hour of rest come:
round, and so wakefulness continues fal
into the night until the body is fairly worn
out and sinks into the lethargy of exhaust
| ion.
1t will be well for people who suffer thu:
to at once take holiday. You say you
cannot that business will not permit you
doubt this very much. Would you really
throw your life, or probably your reason
away for the sake of business. The ques
ton is one you ought to try to answer. Bui
it is my privilege to tell you that in the
earlier stages of sleeplessness, few weeks
stay at bracing seaside place often acts
like magic, people return home restored &c
health and calnl-return home to positively
wonder that the cares and worries that sc
bothered them could have been such bogies
Above all other remedies for sleeplessnesS
place change of air and change of scene
in conjunction with plain nutritious diet
and a more natural way of living.
Why can l not sleep? 1t may be that
you really haye-uknnown to you-some
functionat arrangement of the liver, the
stomach or the heart. This must be re-
moved, ana sleep will return to your pillow
and with it health.
Think and consider whether of late You
have given away to any table indiscretiOn
that may have affected the liver, and
rendered it either sluggish or too active.
In these cases, the blood will in reality
have become poisoned and contaminated
with bile, the mind becomes dull and
probably gloomy ell day, and oyer-active
| towards nightfall. The sure indication OF
treatment is to strictly regulate the diet for
! few weeks, to take an occasional blue
| pill at night, with 4 glass of Pullna water
half an hour before breakfast, and to take
a course of Turkish baths If permitted by
your own medical adviser, with reason
able amount of exercise in the open air.
Dyspepsia will produce sleeplessness, and
may in ordinary cases be cured in the same
way, though aperients should rather be
avoided. Most careful regulation of diet is,
however, sine qua non
1t is not good plan TO go to bed with an
entirely empty stomach. Again. If the
| body feels hot, cold bath followed by a
bottle of soda water and fifteen grains OF
the bicarbonate of soda will have q good
effect. Sometimes hot bath will do more
good than a cold one the state of ones
own feeling is to be consulted, and the re-
| suit made mental note of.
| Do you smoke much? If so. a return to
health is not to be expected until the habit
is overcome.
Exercise in abundance taken during the
DAY in the open air is in hundreds of cases
a cure for sleeplessness; but this exercise
should not be of too fatiguing kind, il
| should be spread over great many hours
it should be pleasant, calming exercise, and
not continued up to late hour. Over-fa.
tigue must be carefully avoided.
The practice of taking stimulants to any
extent is very apt to produce sleeplessness
by keeping up an unnatural excitement o.
| the brain.
Wine negus has been recommended as g
night.cap, and even stronger stimulants
| They should only be prescribed by a medi
cal man, for they are narcotics, and mar
cotics in any form tend 20 make matter:
worse in the long run.-Casselps Magazine