Show cures for SI sleeplessness in nearly all hospitals where there ire are patients in an excitable condition who cannot sleep and where it would be injurious to give narcotics the fol lowing owing method is adopted A hot water bottle Is covered with rith flannel and nd placed at the feet A thin tissue bag ot of thinnest silk rubber Is par bially filled with cold water and placed to the base of the brain this Is about ten ton inches long and six inches wide as e soft as silk and only half filled with cold water so it does not feel bulky back of the bead head in many eases cases the patient goes to sleep within a few minutes because this draws the blood from the active brain which Is U one cause of insomnia when the patient Is extremely nervous a crack or r spread with butter and sprinkled lightly slightly with cayenne pepper ie Is eaten this heat heats the stomach the stock ing wound around the neck not too close yet rather snug Is an old meth od for or it does not retard the flow of blood from the head to the arteries but it does retard the flow to the head just as the cold water assists all these methods are simple effect tive and harmless |