Word: insomniac
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Since germ-laden pus drips down the back of the nose and throat, some victims of sinus disease are liable to suffer serious trouble in other parts of the body. They may become sickly, irritable, insomniac, develop a cough, tonsillitis, arthritis, earaches...
...take your ease in Zion," he tells his newsmen. But if an insomniac reporter beats him to the office, Editor Freeman is rather piqued than gratified. Sometimes he stomps through the city room and salutes his staff: "Good morning, Christian warriors! What the News Leader needs is more news and less bull...
...enrolled 6.000 people a week, by speaking to rallies in Folkestone and Reading. In recent months he has packed halls, turned crowds away throughout England. His physical labors for the League are no fun. Mr. Elliott loathes trains, grimly smokes his pipe and speaks to no one while traveling. Insomniac even in his own bed, he sleeps little-save with sleeping powders-in hotels...
...lemons. In 1932 it was produced artificially by Chemist Tadeus Reichstein of Zurich, is now available to physicians in cheap form. Last week Modern Medicine announced that University of Chicago's Dr. Siegfried Maurer and associates* had given "restful and apparently normal sleep" to 60 healthy but insomniac patients by feeding them one to three grams of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) daily. One group, which was insane, required a larger dose. As soon as the patients achieved a normal sleep, vitamin treatment was discontinued...
...Whether Insomniac Bajoria had taken any of the Western World's recognized sedatives, the Eastern World as represented by Calcutta reporters seemed not in the least curious. They reported that cures proffered by "astrologers, hypnotists and occultists" have been unavailing...