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 tol lowing method Is adopted A hot water bottle la covered with flannel and placed at the leet A thin tissue bag ot thinnest silk rubber Is par bally filled with cold water and placed to the base of the brain this Is about ten inches long and six inches wide as soft as silk and only half filled with cold water so it does not feel bulky back of the head in many cases the patient goes to sleep within a few minutes because this draws the blood from the active brain which Is one cause of insomnia when the patient is extremely nervous a crack er spread with butter and sprinkled slightly with cayenne pepper is eaten this heats the stomach the stock ing wound around the neck not too close yet rather snug is an old meth od lor it does not retard the flow of blood from the head to the arteries but it does retard the flow to the hearl just as the cold water assists all these methods are simple effect alve and harmless |