The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1898-12-22

honrs, and ksp, seolded his pupils Tot q
ceedipg tbs' lImi'. Nov. your insellectu
al
Aaa a victim OF insomnia, sdd,d the
patient
When yon'rc srouiu. old. continned
the doctor, yon may kpow that yoar 10
iellect is oil risl aud yonr powsr are IN
impaired 30 loDs as you stsy svske. lis
only when you feel = constant need Of
sleep thai the decay Of the mental f.cul
ties has set in.
Then maybe I'm stowins young. ssid
the patient used 10 tske . nsp alter
diuuer, aud row DOM even do that
A good iblLg for you. said the doctor.
You onshtl'l TO sleep after meals.
How about the ismou, siests OF Latin
countriesf
It's all wrong, II doctors wsit long
enoush, q case 10 pretty snrs TO ooms along
that will tell theta what they want 10
know. /, would. OF course, be easier 10
cut people open and 6nd out tho things
we want 10 know ss the questions srise,
but th,re are objscctions to doing thst.
and 80 we have to wait until good fortune
iuiures someone 10 the right way. 30 II
happened that once 9 man had his
stomach cut open by sn accident. and his
dcetor made use oi him. The doctor
lesraed among other things that the pro
cess oi digestion became weaker while the
man was asleep. The moral is that il isn't
we'll to sleep after meals. some people
leel the need OF . nap after eating. That
Is because their digestive apparatus isn't
10 good working order o. bscsuse they are
sluttons. l. either case blood needed
elseshere is drawn TO the stomach and
the traIn is impoverished, That's Why
strpents anc other animals go 10 sleep
alter gorging themselves.
That maybe oil right about the other
man. persisted the patient. but in my osss
IT is different | don't sleep now be
cause I've had lot OF care Gu my mind.
Mayb that's the reason snd maybe IL
isut. replied the doctor. Care works
both ways. Towards the end OF his
career napoleon sometimes could scarcely
keep awake VI critical momett, in the
miist OF battle. They said it was bis
liver, but 1t wssn't The same phenome
non was observed among the sucients. A |
passage was called to my after tIon only
the other day from Montsigne'u essay on
sleep. He describes the suici lie oi the
Emperor Ohio. After having made all ar
rangements for killing himself he WA 90
ov' raome by drowsiness that he fell asleep
ana sonn was snoring. 10 the same way.
- when about TO mske away with
...os.I was overcome by sleep. and onoe
the Emperor Augustus. when engaged 10
a naval battle. could hardly keep himsslf
awake long enough to give orders.
All that is very interesting. said the
patient. But what has oil that to do with
my casep
Every thing in the world. answered the
doctor. II we only knew what sleep was.
| might do something for you that would
remedy the evil 10 . direct manner, but
we don't. We're not even
sure that we're anywhere near knowing.
bnt we think we are. DO you know what
The latest theory Of sleep is2 OF course
yon don't. It's only about two yesrs old
and it isn,t yet 10 q condition for popular
II 10 too complicated for
me to explain to you. There are too many
and provisional hypothesis
spd other involved things about 1t.
But the general ides OF It 10 simple
You know there sre such things
ss nerve cells. doL't your Well. we used
% suppose that they we're continuous and
'ormed q permanent line OF oommunios
ion for iicss TO pass over. Now wo Nod
,r Ut least we think We fod. thst they are
,Dly contiguous. that they connect one
With another by means OF piolonestions.
they contract and draw 10 their +,
JroloDgatioDs, and tnen they sre much
bnt of sld isolsted ~ 3 medisevsl baron
lsed 10 be 10 his castle when be raised
be drawbndge or ~ two cities sre nows.
lays when q blizzard comes along aud
,lows down the telegraph wires Tbst 10
leep. Sometimes few OF the nerve oslls
emain connected and exchange ideas.
nbst IL wbst dreams are. When your
val q. they r, oil connected and ~ you 90
o sle y they contract, and shut OIL the
urreot. Pretty theory isn't in Well. iD
our case, say, something's wrong thst
prevents the cells, or some OF them, and
eeps them excited. 80 the thing TO do
! TO try and sootb the and thst'r, sId
bat what We been trying to do. Don't
,ory abont going TO sleep snd maybe 10
ime the bslky cells will get oslmed down
I'd will contract and then you'll get oil
be sleep y0n're entitled TO. Try sooth
ig them. And suppose you expect me v
b give you a pre- cription besides oil this
ood advice aud wisdom9
believe il'e cnttomsry. said the ~
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