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