Word: insomnia
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...must admit the extreme novelty of the experiment. It is an upward step in human progress; but there is no practical gain, for it is already accepted that two cups of black Waldorf coffee guaranteed insomnia and a finished thesis. The gallons of steaming fluid which will be consumed might better be sold to shivering football spectators or sent out at midnight to those who grind exceeding slow. Nor can one underestimate the possibility of fatal error and the danger of a total waste of the investigator's time if the frothy decaffeinated stuff from Childs' is used. That...
...contents of TIME between covers continues to be the best reading in the country and the only criticism I make is the observation that, having chronic insomnia, I have formed the habit of perusing the magazine during wakeful hours, and it is far from a soporific and I need a mental sedative rather than a mental stimulant. Unless you can insert some poetry between advertisements I shall have to find a substitute for TIME for night reading. The only poetry I can comprehend is limericks. Perhaps you will suggest some particularly stupid magazine guaranteed to produce sleep...
...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...