St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-05

VI ibSoInllla, VINO never sleep except
under exhaustion or from the benumb-
ing influence of some hypnotic-it may
be choral, opium, alcohol. sulfonel, or
bromides. These used in ever increas-
ing quantities to produce artificial sleep
must end by the destruction of intel
lectuality.
This is brought about by constant
contraction OF the blood vessels supply
ing the brain structure, because these
hypnotic drugs primarily act upon the
great nervous centerS whence arise
those nerves distributed to all the blood
vessels which are known as the vaSo-
motor nerves, or governing nerves.
Under the influence of such drugs these
nerves are either paralyZed or Over-eX-
cited, and they keep up constant
dimiuution of the caliber of the blood
vessels, wherefore the wholesome sup
ply of nutrient blood is kept from the
brain, which temporarily promote
sleep. but ultimately destroy it. What
is the safe remedy for sleeplesSneSs?
What can be done to cure insomnia?
In these two leading questions the en-
tire subject is considered. Thousands
OF inSOmniacs can trace their troubles
to causes readily remedied in the be-
ginning.
The absence of correlation between
the brain and the stomach must be
known as prime factor in preventing
sleep. The muscle-brawn laborer rests
infinitely better when he seeks his
sleep with his stomach comparatively
empty; with him sleep is that oblivion
which his slow acting brain awards the
work-strained muscles. The brain
worker proper students, professional
men, and builders of fortune-rarely
sleep soundly and regularly.
To such insomniacs 1 say study your
stOmachs. and keep them comparatively
full for two purposes. First, to coax
the blood current away from tfaccid
lot of blood vessels ramIfying
through every nook and corner of
your brain, which is too active and load
ed with unnatural fullness. Secondly,
the stomach must contain food in order
to keep up steady supply of that al
ways I'D demand pabulum necessary to
healthful nutrition, without which no
organ can thoroughly do its allotted
Work. The brain worker must always
WOO sleep with full stomach, warm
feet, cool head and quiet hearts action:
But what if there is tendency to an
epidemc of insomnia as the result OF
that dreadful wave of the higher educa-
ton of our boys and girls, offspring of
nervous parents, inheriting their debil-
lCdI6u pHHSicHl COiiStlOuGlOiS, Will d GU
added attenuated higher intellectually,
undOu otedly now being male manifest
as our young people enter adult life?
If we but recall the beginning of the
upward wave of intellectual life as it
existed twenty years ago and contrastit
with the present concerJ-pitcbed tones
of educational life, we may possibly
check these sleepless nights and the
early physical decay evidenced by
thousandfold increase in neuralgias, a
vast amount of everaggregating
eye disease, OF rather failure
In eye accommodation, by urging
the educators to cease their So
called psychical efforts, not because our
youth cannot absorb every subject now
taught. but simply because it is done.
This intellectually and psychical adj
vancement of the age are dangerous be-
You'd anticipation. The soil is too fall
low. 1t must be permitted to lie idle.
else the next two decades will witness
state of affairs much more dangerous
because much more artificially cult
vated-undoubted hOthouse-raiSed i'll
tellects of brilliant color but feeble vi
tally.
The time has come to cry halt, other-
wise this excessive culture will per-
meate the age and weaken such resist
diicO puWCl dS 10 yC1 anrlihS III "ui
people. Just at this moment wave of
disease, the grippe or influenza, is trav-
cling around the world. We must study
it to avoid it. If such physical results
obtain through atmospheric influences
we can readily comprehend, because we
see the results, how too fragile intel
lectuality breaks under condition. as
it were, of Stereotyping, which should
never show one single flaw under proper
surroundings.
Insomnia, as it prevails through the
great centers of intellectual develop
ment, evidently is largely due to some
just why such is the case no one can
explain, but il is true beyond all pos
sbiity of a doubt. This psychical
epidemic removed, the frequency
of insomnia will materially dimin-
aye are the predisposing causes
to insomnia; its active elements are
owing to the needless high-pressure oc-
equations of our people. particularly in
cities. Were not the age and the times
so lacking robust surroundings. the
medical man would see much less of
deteriorated brain troubles, and insom-
MIA would be but seldom known, be-
cause the hardy physical life OF our
forebears of two or three preceding
generations would not be exhausted, as
it is now.
Functional diseases are on the in
crease. The remedy lies in the public
itself. 1t should frown down the too
highly VOTED wires of brain life and
bury them with triple insulation, an
Insulation of safety, although they
would never be subjected to any sucn
absurd and farcical explosions as Edi-
sons dangers in the accumulation of
hydrogen in chambers not at all air.
tight. MoNTRosE A. FALLEN. Nj. ID.