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 bottle Is covered with flannel and placed at the feet A thin tissue bag of thinnest silk rubber Is partially par-tially filled with cold water and placed to the base of the brain This is about ten Inches long and six Inches wide as soft BS silk and only half filled with cold water ISO It docs not feel bulky back of the head In many cases the patient goes to sloop within a few minutes because this draws the blood from the active brain which la 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 tho arteries but It does retard the flow to the bead just as the cold water assists All these methods aro simple effective effec-tive and harmless |