A CURE FOR INSOMNIA.
A curious cure for sleeplessness, or "insomnia," has recently been reported. A piece of calico about 18in wide and 2| yards long is rolled up like a bandage, and a third of it wrung out of cold water. The leg is then bandaged with this, the wet portions beh-g carefully covered by several layers of the dry part, as well as by a layer of gutta-percha tissue, and a stocking drawn on over the whole. This causes dilitation of the vessels of the leg, thus diminishing the blood m the head and producing sleep. It has been found by Winternitz that the temperature m the ear passage begins to fall a quarter of an hour after the application of the bandage, the decrease amounting to 84 degrees, C, and the normal not being again reached for one and a-half to two hours afterwards. The author has employed this means of procuring sleep for a couple < f years, and finds it especially useful m cases wh> re there is congestion of the brain. Sometimes he has found it necessary to re-Bpply the bandage every three or four hours, as it dried.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 295, 16 December 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)
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194A CURE FOR INSOMNIA. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 295, 16 December 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)
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