Show Kee ping in U Up h cien e eSc Sc 17 erv ce e eA O Ct III nto r toe S r lc Fall Asleep in Class May 1 Not Be De Profs Fault New Will lI Keep Sleepy Persons Persona A Awake wake A drug to keep sleepy persons awake is now being used in medi medical 1 treatment treatment treatment treat treat- ment with pronounced success First report on the use of benzedrine for the treatment of what the doctors call narcolepsy narco narco- lepsy leps or p attacks Is II made by 1 Dr 1 Myron tal of Los Lol Angelea Angeles An An- geles tIes and Mr 11 Wilfred Bloomberg of Boston Doston Students especially are given to sleep derp attacks and mad for tor these their own central nervous systems rather than their professors are ire to blame Cases Case In Point Nine cases cales of persons who fell sleep asleep at least three thre times limes a day are reported by bl the two physicians physician whose work wort with benzedrine has haa been done dona In connection with th the neurological service of Boston DOlton City hospital and Harvard Medical school la In each of the nine eases cases relief was wai complete when suitable doea dOlle were siren The drug also allo gives JIve practically complete relief of cataplexy a state of muscular rigid rigidIty Ity produced by Iud sudden den emotion shock hock or fear tear The studies mad made show how benze bens benzedrine drine to be three times as a. effective Live tive In preventing attacks attach of sleep as u ephedrine the treatment usually given chen Seven Seen of or the canes cases cases' reported were among students the other two affected affected af were were a housewife and an of office lee worker Girl Has Hu to Leave Leav School Three of the students suffered from momentary generalized weakness weak weak- ness lien whenever they laughed One girl had tl to give college because she ah he couldn't avoid falling asleep In classes clau An eleven year old yest oM boy bOI slept all the time he was not actively occupied oc oe- and consequently felled failed In Ms school work One sleepy young I man hurt had been Injured In a game after which he hI became more morl morland and end more drowsy until he h had d six all leen sleen attacks every Pr day ay The Iwo physician state that benzedrine tins has n R profound stun lating action on tin the th higher renters of the central n system II It hn has hll been hema used In hay fever and antl I asthma |