FOR SLEEPY-HEADS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 30, 6 February 1933, Page 2

FOR SLEEPY-HEADS

A NOVEL SERUM_

A woman of forty-five was always tired. She had to sleep about thirteen hours'out of the twenty-four,'and-at last getting up in the morning became an agony;".: . : '•..:•".. :'. Treatment by injection • with glanl extract for four weeks has enabled her to get up every morning early /with. ease. This and other eases of the Had. says D. Jean Bonnin in "Je saw-tout** (Paris), owe everything to- a- recent! discovery of Dr. Leopold lievi, pioneer of endocrinology in IFrance. ■■'••- ■ ' His knowledge of the internal-secretion glands prompted him to experiment until he had tested eitraets for sleepy* heads.- A .suprarenal gland 'extract seems most ponent with those whowant to get up early.-. We read: " An Egyptian woman in a condition of profound weakness, was able,' after fourteen injections of cprtico-snpiar-' enal extract, to get'up at seven in -tha morning instead of at ten,, a'result un^ attainable hitherto. A young woman, an - invalid, >ad affected by a persistent sleepiness. $!>• went to bed. without waiting to e»t her dinner, so intense would be i»t desire to sleep. A multiglandular tr«*t« ment, with suprarenal extract, made it[ easy ■ for :her to get up "in the> morn-< ing at a quarter past six, ridding he? of her drowsiness besides. • : A doctor, having passed his fiftieth year, cbuld riot get up" early. After a course of traetment through 'the energy glands—from the ninth medical visit, in fact—^hecouli get'up early,without difficulty, and atfthe same tune he was freed from.: nervousness, "and pain. ■ '; -;;-..C. ..".'.' ' - '■■