| Show A sleeping man in liverpool Dr dreaton Caton has recently had a remarkable case of narcolepsy marco lepsy leps in the liverpool royal infirmary abe the patient was a m man a n aged 37 he would fall fail asleep while ae standing when selling articles in i his bis shop or even while walking in in the he streets iche if ne attempted to read or er to sit in a chair he be invariably tell asleep in a moment during daring sleep a spasmodic closure of the glottis always took place lasting nearly a minute violent contraction of tile the diaphragm and other respiratory muscles would come on increasing in force and the patient adient would get aset more and more ey cyanosed ae until at length the violence of the efforts partially roused him laud land the spasm of the glottis yielded loud noisy respiration would now come on and the cyan cyanosis would disappear to be followed by deep sleep and the same round of symptoms this condition conditi has hag existed for six years and constantly occurs by day and and by night when awake the patient is perfectly intelligent and there is no evidence of organic disease dr caton supposed that th the symptoms s were due to the I 1 formation or mation of some narcotic alkaloid in the alimentary canal or the blood and this view was strikingly confirmed co by the results c f treatment most benent benefit be ing derived from a agitation Ami limitation tation of diet and the administration of charcoal and naphtha lim three or tour four times daily under this treatment the drowsiness diminished considerably and the spasm of the glottis disappeared disappear ea altogether but when the treatment was suspended for some time the symptoms returned pall mall hall gazette |
