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Show Remedy for Sleeplessness. A physician, writing to a medical journal, declares that he finds peppermint pep-permint water an efficient remedy for sleeplessness. This is a very simple sim-ple cure, and it will not bring forth from the organs of professional opinion any declaration of unsafeness. It is added that a mixture of spirits of chloroform and peppermint water given in hot water to the victim of ( insomnia will produce sleep, but -perhaps in the case of the admixture of chloroform water may claim a decided de-cided share in relieving the trouble. It is as least , easy to try peppermint water, and the theory of its action is believed to be founded on its effect in withdrawing blood from the brain by attracting " a fuller flow to the stomach. |