Show THE OGDEN STANDARD- SUNDAY MORNING APRIL - PFiaf Specialists Say of Paul Kern PFio Declares He Goes for Months with Eyes Wide Open Still Gains Weight and Remains Happy HE toll owing article prepared by 7 the Budapest correspondent ot this who investigated f i i !? Z U i f" -- 1 II 8 I 11 J' £ t Ham ' if 7i - 'i“it " V t A yj ' X -- V ' - x ! : ' yiK u4V gs i x i A': V? 1'' c FATAL SLEEP j -- Mrs Clara Drummond' the Sleeping Beauty” — of California Whose Cento of Consciousness Was Paralyzed by Monoxide Gas In Contrast to Paul Kern Shf Slept 103 Days and Died Lost Weight I for man to venture firth from his cave at night Finding tie time heavy on his hands he lay down closed his eyes and found the sensation agreeable Hence out" modern habit of sleep 1 " £ r r ’ini '’ft Paul Kern X - -- ' ' t) v' - u He’ Looks Today i Ho Paul Kern Has Gained Thirty Pounds Sine He Last Slept Fifteen Years Ago Note White Carnation in Coat Lapel Mrs Drummond poisoned by carbon monoxide gas in 5927 was treated for monoxide poisoning and passed into an unnatural sleep due to the paralysis of her center of consciousness No means known to doctors was capable of rousing her more than momen- - 7 57 wrr-- T A Molecular laytT cell Axon of granule cells 71 I V ucUar layer Cut THOU SHALT NOT SLEEP This is the part of the brain in which center of consciousness Instead of eliminating consciousness the bullet directly or indirectly stimulated the nerve cells of the body to perpetual action At least that is what some Budapest doctors believe This may have happened directly The probability however is" that it did not It is difficult on this basis to dispose of the toxic poisons or their failure to induce fatigue One very plausible explanation however is found in the functions of the thyroid gland which is situated at the front and sides of the neck Investigations have shown that in newly-bor- n infants the thyroid is unland incapable of distributdeveloped small quantities of more than very ing iodine to the tissues of the body Consequently! a single cry often brings fatigue to the very young Infant and sleep is necessary to replenish the en- ergy used up in the cry A f of tm&cidarm—JutzC f$ layer Basle t cell Very Interesting Network of Tiny Ganglia and Nerve Cells Is Shown Above as Reproduced from Gray’s Anatomy1 Disturbances in Thjs Complicated Area Have Made Paul Kern a Unique Case in Medical History t Ing the streets and night clubs of Budapest through the long - hours of the night- are given up to examinations by ' eminent nerve and 17 A V brain specialists of Central Europe who come from distant cities to look at him Incidentally ' after they look at Kern and try and diagnose his case they go away much j more mystified than they were tn the first l L ip is housed the Small cell 7 M ‘7 V v- Cl Artist’s Graphic Portrayal of the Manner in Which a Russian Bullet Grazed Paul Kern’s Center of Conscious-ness in the Cerebral Cortex During the Battle at Chlebovitze Galicia The Way in Which Specialists Explain His Prolonged Insomnia Ir Set Forth on This Page C0 4er0 of Gol-j- i strong-lookin- g of Paul Kern is thatlof-- the late Mrs bride Clara Drummond a 21 year-old known to the public 03 the “Sleeping Beau tv” of California i1 ns stoutl and - : s- Is Since his injury he has added ah already ample thirty pounds to efTieient worker ac- frame He is an tive and intelligent and has shown absolutely no deterioration of mental or physical powers during his fifteen years of wakefulness ’ On the other handf scientific experiments have shown that most persons lose weight during sleep An interesting contrast to the case j-- tC py a av OH FOR A BED I Extreme Fatigue— the Normal Reaction of Human Beings After Being Deprived of Sleep' These Five Stanford University Students Were Kept Awake for 80 Hours in an Experiment Conducted to Solve the Mysteries of Sleep As the infant grows older the thytarily Finally at the end of 103 days roid develops its iodine secretion beshe died Her death ieaxne not from the comes more powerful and the child monoxide! poisoning ’ but from the becomes capable of crying for long strange sleep which followed Paul Kern has made one periods without fatigue Any young father or mother can attest the truth of economic importance duringdiscovery the fifof this statement teen years of his sleeplessness He Since the iodine secretion from the wore out go many suits of clothes so thyroid gland is capable in the growmany pairs of shoes and paid so much ing child of building up tissues and for food and recreation that his of revitalizing nerve cells there is no salary was insufficient As a result reason physicians argue why a he tried to work during the night as well as during the day In thyroid should mot supply of the enough of the secretion to eliminate fact that he never became spite the sleepy many of our hours of sleep strain of j his jobs fatigued him and Borne doctors have gone so far as he had to I return to Jhis one-jo- b sched-t- o say that sleep is just a useless habit ule to safe his 'health Now he has —the outgrowth of the ages before solved his problem by cutting down civilization when it was too dangerous his expenses in order to live 1 s well-develop- ed -- ‘ Age-Ol- d Theme j OUR ENERGY MACHINE Hi? Thyroid Gland Which Surrounds tho Windpipo in the Neck Distribute Through the Body on Iodine Compound Which Revitalizes the Centers of the Nervous Some Doctors Believe System as Sleep Does ‘ place of This Gland May Help 'Kern to Live Kern Without Sleep frankly does not care whether Kt'in va picked up by some liungar they find a cure fox him or not As a and brought to matter of fact he prefers to remain uii 1 re tc as he is He says: a field hospital There his wound a are-e- d and the lacerated skin of hi “Sleep is a waste of time Dreams He recoered con are pleasant I admit but’ I can daysewed up scalp i -t dream when I rest my eyes” ciousnes only to find himself ruffer-ufrom terrific and unceasing head-aehiWhy is it that Paul kern needs no He could not get any sleep at sleep? If it is true that he has stayed entirely awake for fifteen years while night Kern transferred In desperation during the same period the rest of us have slept about 43800 hours how from the field hospital to Budapest has he managed to do it and live? and resorts thence to various health Science has no definite answer to these of months Merano After to firally -- V 4 ! f Over-Stimulatio- i s ' Americans New Passion Play on the ) 'i i’: M A ’ i ' 'j § - ’ £ -- ef the Cerebral Cortex Which Control Our Conscious Actions C- y V self-master- )’ con-ditio- xif Silk 25 BUDAPEST DO not want to sleep I have no de x again sire to be cured Life i? full of interests and pleas ures I am never bored The passing hours do not terrify me I have my work and my Fate ha? taught friendships me the secret of and more real philosophy than all the books in the world" — Paul Kern This frankly expressed credo of a man who is perhaps the world’s most amazing insomniac is the sequel to an episode of the World War It is the aftermath of a wound from a spent Russian bullet which whistled acrrj- tlu fields of Galicia and stopped when it grazed the skull ot the subject of this article The annals of science contain no record of sleeplessness comparable to the case of Paul Kern Even if he is a hypomaniac as some doctors say he is he still stands alone as the man who has had no natural sleep for fifteen years This much seems to be certain: any relaxation which he has had has been gained while he walked worked stood sat or danced Hypomania is a condition which permits sleep of part of the conscious mind while other centers of tern of consciousness remain active While in this state the patient believes that he is completely awake and cannot usually be convinced that he has really slept the very light sleep of hypomania This sleep may be gamed anywhere and under almost any A mild case of hypomania is practically equivalent to absolute sleeplessness since at no time is the patient deprived of the use of his senses or of his powers of locomotion The chain of circumstances in Kern’s ease which centered the interest of the medical and the lay public in’ this city upon the mystery of sleep to an unprecedented degree leads back to June 24 1915 when a Hungarian company attacked the Russian lines near Chlebovitze a small village in Galicia The young company commander Lieutenant Paul Kern led the attack Suddenly he felt a slight knock on the head He lost his balance As he fell he saw fell and staggered a small object fall to the ground before him It was the bullet which had hit him1 He reached out grasped it put it in his pocket and lost consciousness Thirty-si- x hours later Lieutenant I ft A newspaper the case ot Paul Kern on the spot is presented not as the Bnal word in explanation ot the subject but as a full report of Kern's astonishing condi- tion as it is understood by reputable Vienna and Buda £ pest specialists at the present Note Editor’s time— ife) V s n her-beare- r- ‘ - agony the headaches disappeared Kern tried hard to sleep He tried sleeping liquors drugs and all kinds of tried exno avail lie to all potions did but of air ercises and changes not succeed even to the extent of making himelf leepy He finally gave up the struggle and et out to find a solution for a brand new human problem — how to keep ochours a day He cupied twenty-fou- v found a position with the Social Insurance Company a Government office where he still work? from 9 to 2 each Hi? leisure hours those he does day pot spend in a small cafe reading all the newspapers of the world or haunt- - questions Eminent doctors admit that the case of Paul Kern is an anomaly entirely without precedent in scientific j history Sleep is generally accepted as a condition produced by the accumulation of toxic products whi£h cause the exhaustion of oxygen ip the centers of the nervous system The result of sleepjs said to be the revitalizing of the nervous system by elimination of the fatigue toxins The bullet which hit Paul Kern set in motion a chain of causation which finally resulted in the complete abolition of sleep as a factor in his life The bullet grazed his cerebrum cortex i k ) This year a Passion Play was enacted at Bloomington this play every detail of the Biblical Illinois t Pontms Pilat Are Shewn was earnedIn out oIder “ the costumes scenery and of the original actors in the drama of the scourem?! Lashing the Saviour in the' Passion Play at ’ cmdfiiion of Christ wer followed out in Bloomington Illinois The spectacle was witnessed by thousands minute detaiL j ’r‘ I I CsrrrtSW JS laUrzslteBsl Ssstur !Srrtc In Grsst BrfUla SJfMs Swni i1 L ii cf f irihrUt gle Who Played the Part of the Mother the Passion Play Which Was Recently Enacted at Bloomington III in |