The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-03-07
SLEEP INDUCING rau9s.
rksre Are Many Used. but One That Is Alb
solutely Safe Not Yet Found.


rksre Are Many Used. but One That Is Alb
soiutely Safe Not Yet Found.
When one loses the knack of sleep
ing he makes no bones of going into
doctors shop, laying down his
money and confidently demanding SO
much's worth of sleep. He wants
dreamless 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
distress of multiplying victims of their
nerves. Before the discovery that
chlOrOform would produce an@sthesia
the medical men had about given up
all hopes of medicines, other than OPT
UNI, to give relief from physical pains;
but ever since hundreds of analysts
and experimenters have been search
ing for new sedatives. The means of
introducing morphia under the skin
has become frightfully popular; bel
ladonna, stramonium, hyoscyamus,
aconite and Indian hemp have each
had 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 measure of professional
and popular favor; choral was well
coined as a glorious and harmless REM
edy for the sleeplessness of pain and
of nervous excitement; cocaine created
a widespread enthusiasm not merely
for its property of producing local an
asthesia, but also for its general
effects in hypodermic injection; anti
pyrin came upon the stage with
blare of trumpets; and now sulphOnal
is heralded as the long desired hyp-
motto, without danger and without
after effects.
Each of the anasthetics, hypnotics
and sedatives mentioned above is an
instrument of great value in the medi-
cal arsenal. We are absolutely mas
tiers of all pain and of all the distresses
and depressions that increase under
the pressure of civilization. But we
are yet without a single agent, unless
it be sulphonal, that is certainly harm
less There is no medicine the pro-
longed use of which does not leave a
bad effect, and the use of which, ex-
cept under the eye of the physician,
is without immediate danger. Sui.
phonal has been taken in all quaint.
ties and under many conditions, with
out any apparent bad effects; but it is
from recent reports that we learn its
use is attended with some danger and
one fatality has been ascribed, though
doubtfuily, to its use.
Let the doctors work out the issue.
The public has no 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 doctow find a harmless sleeping
medicine the world will know it. I'm.
til the victim of insomnia who does
not rely on the doctors can only resort
to the simple ways of counting sleep,
the most eficacious of which, without
danger and without any i'll effects, is
change of scene and change of inter.
est.-Milwaukee Sentinel.