DO YOU SLEEP WELL?
The inability to go to sleep during tegular sleeping hours becomes a serious menace to health. Proper periods of rest both for mind and body'are absolutely essential. Insomnia may Tesult from a number of causes. Highly.strung people are more likely subjects than those of a placid disposition. Judigestion is a fruitful cause; so is over study, worry or grief. There are'those who complain to their doctors, that when they are about their work or sitting still, they can hardly re. eist the tendency to go to sleep, but tho moment they lay their heads upon the pillow they cannot get to sleep. This condition is usually met with in anaemic, debilitated people. An eminent prac. titioner'explains the cause of this. Tho vessels of the brain having lost theij tone, cannot • contract and regulate tho flow of blood through the brain. When one in tliis condition in an upright position, tho upper parts of tho body, and more particularly the braiji, owing to tho laxity of the vessels. Are* drained of blood. But wlion the patient lies down the reverse is tho case, and the blood flows too freely through the brain and the imagination is excited. In such cases it is necessary to restore tone by the nso of tonics, and it is advisable-tor anyona who is debilitated and run down to toiko a course of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They increase tho blood supply and impart tone to the whole system. < Sleep becomes sounder and more' refreshing, your worries become less, and your «ivork lighter.. The whole action of these pills is to assist nature ki restore the body to normal activity. They do not. contain any narcotic. Tour nearest dealer can supply you with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at the price they have always 'old At. 3s. a box, sis JioxfiS 16s. 6d«.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2719, 14 March 1916, Page 7
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309DO YOU SLEEP WELL? Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2719, 14 March 1916, Page 7
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