HOW TO SLEEP
LORD HORDER'S ADVICE
CAUSE OF LOST REST
LONDON, August 2.
Have a doze at midday if you fool like it, and do not bo put off your whisky toddy nightcap if you are used to it, were two maxims which Lord Horder £;ave to a meeting of tho British Medical Association, which was discussing the evils arising from modern conclifcu us ■ .
"I. never knew a patient to sleep wor-.o at ujght if ho yieldod to the temptation to tako forty winks in the daytime," said Lord Horder. Ho advised sufferers from sleeplessness to try and induce a stato of equanimity in tho daytime.
The main causes of sleeplessness were remorse, fear, love, anger, sorrow, and joy, which required psychological treatment rather than drugs.
Another cause was excess of brainwork, although only a small part of tho brain worked hard at any time.
Lord Horder said he did not believe that brain-work in intellectual people caused sleeplessness, provided they were working nnder good physical conditions.
Orgies of sleep, whereby youngsters camo down to breakfast at all hours, constituted a bad habit, like alcohol and drugging, and should be resisted.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 35, 10 August 1934, Page 9
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