ELECTRIC SLEEP.
"TO TURN ON AND OFF." Electric sleep, to bo "turned on" or "turned off" at will, is the alluring promise held out to sufferers from sleeplessness by Dr. Nagolschmidt, a German physician, who describes his invention in the Berlin Clinical Weekly. So far electric sleep has been produced only in rabbits and dogs, but the experiments on animals have been so free from ill effects that Dr. Nagelschmidt thinks human beings can be subjected to the same treatment without danger. Sleep is produced by a now form of electric current devised by Dr. Nagelsehmidt. When applied to the base"of the brain, ho declares, a narcotic effcct iB caused _ which can be maintained as long as is desired. The animals oil which experiments were tried returned to consciousness and an entirely normal condition within a. minuto or two.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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139ELECTRIC SLEEP. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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