Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-12-09
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= DR.. William Evart, the we'll known
London physician, says in an article in
the st. Louis Star:
: Sleep has two offices, both fulfilled in
the long sleep Of night, which it is our
usual endeavor to secure for our pa.
tients-namely, that Of favoring the
slow changes Of repair and that of In.
nerrupting consciousness by uncoupling
the chain Of neurons or by relaxing
protoplasmic tension or Tone This re-.
lief of tension is, 1t would seem. the
only office performed by the shorter
spells Of sleep, and therefore the two
forms of sleep suggest two therapeutic
objects. The nights sleep which comes
without any drugs may need to be bet.
tered, and in improving the quality Of
spontaneous sleep our help is often Of
value. 1t might also need to be pro-
longed.
n The systematic prolongation of sleep
for the cure of disease is one of our
opportunities hitherto little used. Pro-
longed narcosis has also been suggested
in excessive wear and tear of the nerv-
GUS system, and in various nervous af
fections, including the mental, its re-.
newed trial, combined with suitable
methods in feeding, might lead to en-
couraging results.
I Best suited perhaps to our everyday
needs is a systematic resort to the
shorter sleep. Like the light INSTALL
ments of food which restore the lost
function of appetite and digestion,
short sleep in the day may be essential
to the cure Of nocturnal insomnia. Our
growing wealth in hypnotics warrants
d hope that suitable agent may yet
be found which in that direction would
minister to the health of the invalid
and might command the luxury Of sleep
at an opportune time for the ccnven-
fence of the worker.
Manage For Apoplexy.
The medical profession recognizes to-
day as it has never done before the re-
markable aid of massage. 1t has done
marvellous things for paralysis, even
for apopleXy, at which doctors once
looked on helplessly. ApopleXy is caus-
ed by a clot of blood on the BRAIN and
If that clot can be broken up, If an
emptying can be effected of clogged
veins, recovery is in sight. Constant
massage Of the forehead and skull Will
do it (this has been proved over and
over again, while paralyzed limbs, by
patient, constant kneading, can have
new life rubbed into them.
To Turn Negroes White.
Professor Marshall Johnston of the
University of Kansas school OF medl'
cine has discovered a means whereby
he claims to be able to make the negro
white. Briefly set forth, Professor john
ston's method consists in lnnoculatihg
the negro with the serum of leucltls
or albinism, a harmless disease when
produces those strange oddities OF ma
ture known as Albinos. The fact that
albinism IL the result of disease IS II
discovery in itself, the credit OF which
belongs to the professor.
An Antiseptic Discovery.
! An important discovery in the SCI
ence of antiseptics, upon which DIS
Frederick G. Novy and Paul c. freer
have been working for over year IN
their laboratories at Ann Arbor, Mlch''
has Just been made public. Inc new
antiseptics are organic acid hyperoA'
ides. In q water solution hve one
thousandths of / per cent OIL ue'i,e
oxygen derived from the hyperoA'ue' 10
fatal to all bacteria