Word: insomnia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of the National Wardens' Association in 1922. Many a convict counts him a great & good friend. He works in shirtsleeves when going through a batch of Sing Sing statistics. Usually mild mannered, he becomes for short periods, about a dozen times a year, nervous,, irritable, troubled with insomnia...
...Insomnia. "The sick and nervous are slow in getting to sleep and are helped most by the rest they get between 5 and 9 o'clock in the morning. . . . Something can often be done for insomnia by teaching the patient to keep his mind off disturbing thoughts, to avoid mental work or exciting conversations after dinner, to take a warm bath and a little food on retiring and to go to bed earlier. . . . The less the patient sleeps one night, the less he is able to sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle...
...book is "A Pocket Medicine Chest of Verse." He furnishes 14 packets of medicine for specific mental ailments: "Stimulants for a Faint Heart (Poems of Courage)"; "Mental Cocktails and Spiritual Pick-Me-Ups (Poems of Laughter)"; "Massage for a Muscle-bound Spirit (Poems of Emancipation)"; "Poppy Juice for Insomnia (Soothers and Soporifics)"; "To Deflate the Ego (Ingredients for a Humble Pie)"; etc. Although the editor offers them half with tongue- in-cheek, there is no reason why his prescriptions should not effect cures quite as marvelous and as numerous as those produced by innocuous sugar pills. Incidentally, his selection...
...Sleepless tests" conducted upon students at George Washington University (TIME, Aug. 24) came to a close after all those tested had maintained a state of voluntary insomnia for 60 hours. Two of the students, Watson Monroe and Lester Petrie, continued without sleep for 20 hours more. Then, still protesting that they "felt fine," they were bundled...
...raving mad and confined in straight-jackets, died. In all there were 45 men-three shifts of 15 each-working together on the same job. All were placed under medical observation and care. Only ten of them were unaffected. The others all showed symptoms of the disease: headaches, nervousness, insomnia, lowered blood pressure. Such was the toll of the first major onslaught of the newest "occupational disease." For some time experiments have been going forward in an effort to improve gasoline as an automobile fuel. A motor entirely of glass was constructed to study the explosions in gas engines...