"FORTY WINKS" BY TAP."
Many and curious have b»ea the methods employed to induce sleep in all ages, Even from the primitive pillow stuffed with the narcotic leaf to the more modern one advocated by a wellknown Swedish doctor— ot getting between the blacnkets dripping- from a cold bath.
But perhaps none-is so extraordinary as that recently invented by an eminent German doctor and scientist. By his system it is possible to switch sleep "off "^ and "on" precisely as one manipulates the electric light. -* ;
Thus it is by eleotricity that the doctor is able to.promise sleep to the most inveterate of insomnia victims. By means of a small electrically-worked machine, he applies the current to the base of the skull, which produces a ' 'deadening effect on the nerves. This state can be kept up for as long a period as desired. Up to the present experiments have been practically confined to animals; but, as it was found they could be brought to full consciousness within a minute or two, it is believed the invention can have no evil effect on
humans,
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 May 1913, Page 3
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