p. 13 | INSOMNIA by William Henry Riley

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · May 3, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 18.

INSOMNIA.

By William Henry Riley

INSOMNIA is usually accompanied by other manifestations of morbid conditions, prominent among which may be mentioned nerve weakness and nerve irritability. It is a disorder quite as difficult to manage, and quite as trying to the physician, as any with which the general practitioner has to deal; and, judging from the number of hypnotics and sleep-producing remedies that are constantly brought to his notice in the weekly advertising sheets of the medical journals, his task in this direction is not at all diminishing, even if he have the aid of the manufacturing chemist and the pharmacist. The large number of these sleep-producing drugs that are offered to the public (and they are rapidly and constantly increasing in number) also suggests the importance of a knowledge of how to preserve normal sleep, and of how to relieve sleeplessness, if possible, by the use of more simple and less harmful remedies.—W. H. Riley, M.D.