Sleeplessness by Hall's Journal of Health

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 29, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 17.

Sleeplessness

By Hall's Journal of Health

SLEEPLESSNESS is the result of over bodily or mental effort. When a man works beyond his strength, or thinks or studies more than rest can restore, then, sooner or later, comes that inability to sleep soundly, that wakefulness, which is more wearing even than bodily labor, and which feeds the debility which first gave rise to it. The result is, a man is always tired, never feels rested, even when he leaves his bed in the morning; hence he wastes away, and finds repose only in the grave, if, indeed, insanity does not supervene. It is too often a malady remediless by medical means.

Avoid, then, as you would a viper or a murderer, all over-effort of mind or body; it is suicidal. Whatever you do, get enough sleep; whatever you do, take enough rest to restore the used energies of each preceding twenty-four hours; if you do not, you may escape for a few months, and if possessing a good constitution, years may pass away before any decided ill result forces itself on your attention; but rest assured the time will come when the too often baffled system, like a baffled horse, will refuse to work; it will not take prompt and sound sleep; it will not be rested by repose, and that irritating wakefulness will come upon you which philosophy can not conquer, which medicine can not cure, and, wasting by slow degrees to skin and bone, rest is found only in the grave.—Hall's Journal of Health.