Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-07-30
no - LIE AWAKE NlGN1SN
hon't Smoke IN the Evening, Hut Eat
Little, or Cycle,

Brain workers como honestly by IN
Somnta- Midnight oil prelSlr<'s the
way for restless sumher& business
and pleasure alike claim hours OF the
night time and the period OF healthy
fatigue READILY passes into the perlod
OF nervous unrest. The sufferers from
insomnia complain that they feel most
lively Just when the time has come for
retiring to rest, and that y long period
VI restlessnTSs preteics a troubled
uwakons them AZ 4 result waking
hours finds them trrltahloa nd heavy,
and the feeling of laEsitude and IN.
capacity tor intellectual work is esne-
cially pronounced during forcnoons.
II This condition is kept up the VIC
tim Of insomnia applies to some kind
hearted physician and learns OF dan.
Erroua drugs. whtcn he attcrw lrds
uses to suit hts own ideas playing the
changes ON hromidcs, Hulphonal and in
Vulnerable other sleeping pottons. The
danger Of drugs Tor ms, mnia is soIue-
tN'uG greater than the danger to The
nervous system without drugs, The
man who suffers from insomnia needs
to study his mode ~ Nto lnSomnta Is
not n disease; II * n symptom. III
dicatos often merely thc outcome ot an
unnatural mode Of life, and IL this IL
corrected the insomnia viii often dis
appear Of itself
(bt ~ ~
The only habit common to all nervous
and ovcrworkcd men tg smoking, To
all other men tobacco is n mild lNl1Na,
ton To the nervous man alone smok-
4 ing becomes an active sodnttNH oI
stimnlant Under these conditions
federation for tobacco becomes very
much greater and il Hoon becomes n
cerebral trritant and begins to inter-
frrc With the vast motor C"ntcrs in the
brain to the extent that the vessels are
unable to adjust themselves forwtth
to the condition required for healthy
and uutmuhlrd sleep,
It is lvas common than the nlarmistf
would have the public believe. tor
smoking. too, affects the nervous Sys-
tenn In the earlier stages OF nervous
4 troubles II is only when n series OF
other things have succeeded In affect
+ ing tho nervous balance of the indt.
vidual that smoking bt gins to have ~
/ important effect
"rohaccO hygiene should he rtgldly
observed Smoking early In the day II
a scrioua fault but smoking late al
night for the "ncurotiC" is suicidal, Al
such times. especially II used like The
other sleeping potions, 1t becomes the
drug habit nicotine
Tho first means To remedy insomnia
consists of walk in the open MIR be
tween the last pipe or cigar and Tho
bed Bathing will do what the aleeI
drug never will accomplish and that II
TO regulate the disturbed circulation II
the brain.
Sci, ntists never have been nbln tC
prove whether sleep was caused by II
excess or dimnuton OF blood IN the
brain. But insomnia Is an unnatural
| irregular distribution and circulation oil
the blood
If any drug is valuable II IL n atimu
latinp drug. not a s"datyc Strychnint
Will restore tone and life whore opium
or bromide will merely bcnumb anc
paralyze. a little food in the evening
will do more toward restoring the bni
ance than atryChninc, and, II the In
soInnia is from fatigue, may perma
rcntly cure But n bicycle VIII accom-
plstf mere than MI other means com
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