and rubbing the surface of the body with the dry
hand. Or walk about the room a few minutes, exposing the skin to the
air, go back to bed and try the deep breathing.

"The use of drugs for the purpose of inducing sleep should be
avoided as much as possible. Opium is especially harmful. Sleep
obtained by the use of opiates is not a substitute for natural
sleep. The condition is one of insensibility, but not of natural
refreshing recuperation. Three or four hours of natural sleep
will be more than equivalent to double that amount of sleep
obtained by the use of narcotics. When a person once becomes
dependent upon drugs of any kind for producing sleep, it is
almost impossible for him to dispense with them. It is often
dangerous to resort to their temporary use, on account of the
great tendency to the formation of the habit of continuous use.
The use of opiates for securing sleep is one of the most
prolific means by which the great army of opium-eaters is
annually recruited. Chloral, bromide of potash, whisky and other
drugs are to be condemned almost as strongly as opium."--DR.
KELLOGG.

Dr. Furer, of Heidelberg, Germany, in a paper before the International
Congress against alcohol, held in Basle, Switzerland, in Sept., 1895,
said:--

"The sleep from alcohol does not act as a mental tonic, but
leaves the mind weaker next day."

Some noble specimens of manhood have become wrecks through accepting the
advice to try "whisky night-caps." Edison recommends manual labor,
instead of going to rest, for aggravated insomnia. He says sleep will
soon come naturally.

LA GRIPPE:--"Alcohol has no place in the treatment of _la
grippe_; on the contrary it is because of the too frequent use
of this, and other narcotics, that epidemics make such fearful
headway in our land, and such must be the rule until the people
study the laws of health and obey them. Profuse sweating,
followed by a careful bathing of the body in tepid water,
gradually cooling it to a normal temperature, and avoiding
unnecessary exposure, will relieve. The patient should sleep in
pure air and eat as little as possible, and that only when
hungry. * * * * * Quinine is essentially a nerve poison, and
capable of producing a profound disturbance of the nervous
centres. A drug of such potency for evil should be employed with
the greatest care, and n