INDIAN INSOMNIAC.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 286, 2 December 1936, Page 18

INDIAN INSOMNIAC.

LIFE SLIPPING AWAY.

A MULTITUDE OF COUNSELLORS. LONDON". Hoping for the publicity as well as tlie £1000 reward, a London medical apparatus manufacturing' firm has just sent one of their special machines to India, in tlie attempt to cure the sleepless Calcutta millionaire.

For two years Rijiliadur Ramjidas Bajoria lias been the victim of remorseless insomnia and he is now almost resigned to death.

His offer of £1000 reward for a. cure has brought suggestions from all over the world. His correspondents include housewives, actors-, farmers, labourers, foresters and a Texas cowboy.

Almost all oT these are people who have suffered from the same ailment, and their comments are more for the sake of helping a fellow sufferer than to gain reward, according to the reports! The Marwavi millionaire belongs to one of the most orthodox Hindu sects, to whom religious observances are a fetish. For this reason he has declined to take part in many experiments. Though one Indian hypnotist guaranteed to cure him within forty-eight hours, the sleepless man refused because his religion does not permit belief in spiritualistic powers. Recipes for relief have come from all classes in London. From a member of the British nobility came the offer of a pillow filled with herbs and dried flowers collected by English herbalists. Other suggestions are to: Lie on a wet sheet; put sweetoil on the eyelids and the base of the neck; massage the top of the spine; use a brick for a pillow; take an hour's airplane flight; lie relaxed near a wood fire; listen to radio music; drink beer, and follow a sleeping draught with a knock-out blow on the chin! One woman in America cabled, "Eat lettuce." From other parts of the world come the frequent hints of Bible reading, chopping wood, counting sheep, drinking hot milk, and eating onions. But the sick man, sitting staring into space in his richly furnished house, has lost interest in a life that is rapidly slipping away.