Show The Value of Sound Sleep to the Body Bodyne ne Regular lIlar and prolonged cd sleep in in summer summer summer sum sum- mer is is not so essential to health as is is popularly supposed The l lack ck of sleep is not half as bad for the system as the worry that one indulges in because of it It seems stems heartless and unsympathetic often to say this to a person melancholy because of lack laek of sleep The many devices for occupying in tb the mind with trivial thoughts to t the he exclusion ex ex- elusion lusion of those in in which one is vitally interested are arc founded on sound physiological logical principles that is is the mind cannot cannot can can- not think intently on two thin things s at once The counting of imaginary sheep going going go go- ing mg over o an imaginary stile stife has been found Imaginations Imagination's Place A very good way to tiro tire out the mind and to change the current of thought at atthe atthe atthe the same time is to recall a pleasant journey lourney that cne cue has bas taken and travel again in in imagination each hour and each moment of each hour recalling every little detail J In n this way aY the tho brain is soon wearied to the sl sleeping lp n point Drugs are valuable in in cases cues in which the power of sleep is is lost and wakefulness wakeful wakeful- ness has become a habit No one should take tako dru drugs for sleep without the advice of a physician Drug habits are worse than sleepless sleeplessness ness ness The The same saml causes which prevent pre sleep slee are arp often those which would easily lead the victim to dependence upon drugs Morphine habits have thus been formed and allied dru drugs should be avoided as they act on th the heart and if long continued will cause disease of that organ Break Up Sleeplessness Dru Drugs s are useful to break up the tile habit of sleeplessness and in in cases eases where through long continued lack of pf sleep the tho person has become weak and run down then under the advice of a physician take the remedies which are thought though suitable to the case A cause of sleeplessness which has lIas not been heen mentioned is poverty of the blood Tn In such cases the patient needs iron and andton ton tonics is i's and should take them One of the best remedies for sleepless sleepless- is electricity The galvanic current is used as that thatis is is more sedative than the faradic current cur cur- rent The faradic current is is the one that makes the buzzing sound and is the current current cur cur- rent given by the ordinary cheap bat teri teries That current is is exciting and will not promote sleep Electricity should be he administered by byone byone byone one who has knowledge and practice |