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Show Cures for Sleeplessness. In nearly all hospitals where there are patients in an excitable condition who cannot sleep and where it would be injurious to give narcotics, the following fol-lowing method is adopted. A hot-water hot-water bottle is covered with flannel and placed at the feet. A thin tissue bag of thinnest silk rubber Is partially par-tially fill?d with cold water and placed to the base of the brain. This is about ten inches long and six inches wide, as soft as silk and only half filled with cold water, so it does not feel bulky back of the head. In many cases the patient goes to sleep within a few minutes, because this draws the blood from the active brain, which U one cause of insomnia. When the patient is extremely nervous, a cracker crack-er spread with butter and sprinkled slightly with cayenne pepper Is eaten. This heats the stomach. The stocking stock-ing wound around the neck, not too close, yet rather snug. Is an old method, meth-od, for it does not retard the flow of blood from the head to the arteries, but It does retard the flow to the head, Just as the cold water assists. All these methods are simple, effective effec-tive and harmless. |