Word: insomnia
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...Supreme Court, I would never take my place on the bench-because I would die of surprise." Next day the phonographic Senator told an autograph-beggar to write to his office. "I'll not only send you my autograph," said he, "but the greatest thing for insomnia you ever had-a set of my speeches...
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Bedseat Driving. Seated in his bed at Tokyo last week, the Premier of Japan, astute and cautious Prince Fumimaro Konoye, gave out that he was "suffering from insomnia." Actually he was conducting the difficult affairs of the Empire in a manner which afforded maximum protection from Japanese super-militarists, zealots of such stop-at-nothing kidney that they have murdered a total of three Premiers of Japan...
...first articles on benzedrine sulfate appeared in the May 22 issue of the Medical Association Journal. The Journal states that the proper dose of 10 to 30 milligrams per day must be carefully regulated to the individual and an overdosage results in insomnia, lassitude, fatigue, loss of weight, a state of increased irritation, surliness, constipation, tension of the muscles, abdominal cramps, overactivity, headache, forgetfulness, confusion, inability to concentrate, and in certain individuals a tendency toward dementia praecox...
...college students of a new, powerful but poisonous brain stimulant called Benzedrine last week kept college directors of health in dithers of worry. Cases of over-dosage have been uncovered at the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago. Elsewhere students who, while cramming for final examinations, collapse, faint, develop insomnia, or show a slowed pulse rate are under suspicion of using the substance. They call it "pepper-up," "pep pills...