Show FIGHTING SLEEP WITH TEA THE following appeared in the science monthly the practice of taking tea or by y students in I 1 n order to work at is s downright madness especially preparing for an examination more hall than half of the cases of breakdown loss of memory fainting etc which occur during severe examination and far more frequently than is commonly known 0 wn are due to this 1 I breque frequently antly hear of promising students who have thus failed and inquiry have learned in almost instance that the victim has p previously revl drugged himself with tea or coffee sleep is the lest of the brain rob the hard worked brain of its necessary rest is cerebral gul rui suicide cide clde mv my old friend the late wright t was a victim of this tills bollt folly I 1 he undertook the translation the life of cassar by napoleon III ill and to do it in a cruelly short time f fulfilled his contract by sitting up several nights successively by the tile aid strong tea or coffee 1 I forget which I 1 saw him shortly afterward IK a few weeks he had bad aged alarmingly and aud became quite ite bald and his brain gave way and never recovered there Ther ewas was but little difference between his age and mine and but for this drea orea dreadful adful cerebral strain rendered render c d possible oni only y by the alkaloid for otherwise lie would have fallen failen asleep over his work and thereby saved bis his life he be might still stillie be te amusing and inspru ting thousands of readers by fresh volum s of popular archos logical rea xea earch carch 11 |