| Show ulab 01 tl llie of sleep ilni not let I 1 anal 1 lie questions as to tl e hilure ind causes of sleep have not ct received fit al ic cording to tie i resent st ite of ph knowledge it la genen lly agreed thit alie need of sleep is occasioned by certain exhausted con dillons of the central nervous system which cannot be repaired during llie lively action of the ardin cells but only when these aie in a sidle of however this may be it is safe to say that cannot do without sleep even it ammy aits nits of our nervous system demand no conditions similar to sleep for recovery alie work of the lungs and goes on ery much the same during the deepest slumber it is only the brain which needs in order to regain its lost energy and to enable it to perform new work in si ile of this fact there have always bien deorle who cl limed tl at sleep w is not indispensable but wis only a habit from which one could wein himself as I 1 11 e great actually attempted A solution of the i problem how loi g can i healthy man do without sleep wis determined bivs atie london lancet by i lite attempt in aberici men tried to do without sleep for seen days on a wager tl ey began at noon on monday the of march four of them h id given up the attempt by thursday two held out until townsend was alo first of these to weaken he went about as if be were iskel reeling hither and thither at ib nit midnight he gave up the attempt 1 e had ie bied tl e wall and overcome by sleep fell to the floor although the fill aroused him he con tinned to sleep where he biad fillen hiie otter one emi loed the list twelve hours in walking sing ing dancing and sere lining llie last minutes seemed to him in eternity he shri ikel tint they passed too flonly and tl at some one hi 1 i nr stop cd alio clock ho thus pissed lie seven dia without sleep U tl en I 1 of tl e I 1 minutes I 1 0 w 14 to I 1 avo it I 1 to a number of re I 1 it fell into a deep sleep is they entered alteio agh lid 1 st eight p in Is in and neither ciny in joiy to 1 la 1 lillei lo 10 rob one of sleep is an old an 1 m cruel punish ment a tl e cl a I 1 in many cass it tannin fit illy 1 foloi ua w 1 alertly among ins me peo pie as a symptom of ill I 1 but is lucli more cisily by bics tics than by heaitly ie tra ulata I 1 oft t je nol |
