Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-11-14
SLEEP INDUCING DRUGS.
There Are Many Used. but One hat Il Alb.
s~oiutely Safe Not Yet Found.

There Are Many Used, but One Thai Il Alb.
s~oiutely Safe Not Yet Found.
When one loses the knack of sleep.
ing he makes no bones of going into
a doctors shop, laying down his
money and confidently demanding so
muclI'S worth of sleep. lie wants
droamless and restful sleep, with no
after effects. This is what experiment.
al medicine has been trying to supply,
but unless tie new hypnotic, sulphonal
meets the requirements, the demand
Of the sleepless cannot be supplied.
The chances are many that sulphOnal,
however valuable, will not give sleep
without after effects. In the past fifty
years a great deal has been done to
mitigate not only the desperate pains
of diseased tissues, but also 10 allay the
distress Of multiplying victims of Their
nerves, Before the discovery that
chlorofcmn would produce anpsthcsia
the medical men had about given up
all hopes Of medicines. other than OBI.
uIm, To give relief from physical pains;
but v since hundreds of auaivsts
and eyperimentcrs have been search.
ing for new srdatives. The means of
Introducing morphia under the skin
has become frightfully popular; bel
ladonEa, stramonium, hyoscyamus,
acoEitc and Indian hemp have each
had a turn Of popularity for the relief
Of different forms of distress; for cere-
bal excitement and nervousness the
bromideS have had and still have a
considerable measu of professional
and popular favor; choral was wei.
coined rs II glorious and harmless rem.
edy for the sleeplessness of pain and
OF nervous excitement; cocaine created
a widespread enthusiasm not merely
for It's property Of producing local an
9stleSla, but also for its general
effects in hypodermic injection; anti.
pyrim anne upon the stage with a
blare of trumpets; and now sulph0nal
is hcraldcd rs the long desired hyp-
motto, without danger and without
after effects.
Each of the anUsthetics, hypnotics
and sedativcs mentioned above is an
instrumental great value in the medi-
cal arsenal. We are absolutely mas.
tiers of all pain and of all the ~dislresScS
and depressiuns that increase under
the pres Ure Of civilization. But we
arc yet without Il single agent, unless
il be s%ulphonal, That iscertainly harm
less. There is no medicine the pro
longed usc of which does not leave n
bad effect, and the use Of which. cx.
ccpt under the eye Of the physician,
is without immediate danger. sui
phOnal has been taken i'm all quunli-
ties and under many conditions. with
out any apparent bad effects: but il is
from recent reports that we learn lis
use is attended with some danger, and
fatality has been ascribed, though
doubtluily. to lis use.
Let the doctors work out tie issue.
The public has 40 business To deal
with these things. The victims OF
simple insomnia are many, their tor.
lures are considerable, but until they
are ready To appeal TO the physician
they should let drugs alone. When
the doctors find a harmless sleeping
medicine the world will know it. I'm
til the victim of insomnia who does
not rcly'Um the doctors can only resort
TO the simple Why's OF cOurting sleep,
the most cliicariOus Of which. without
danger and without any i'll effects. is
change ut zen and change Of inter
est.-Ii' zee Sentinel.