Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — Snoring. [ARTICLE]

Snoring.

It is related of Sir Humphrey Davy, an eminent scientist, that among his minor discoveries was a theory of snoring and a way of epring it. Be attributed snoring to a dry or parched state of the larynx caused by mouth-

breathing, and in an inveterate case be tried to cure it by putting a piece of castile soap in the mouth of the sonorous sleeper, He found this plan was oily ingredients of the soap lubricating the lafYnz, while “the soda of the soap is forcibly expelled in the form of strong alkaline language by the snorer, who awakens the moment the decomposition begins.” Soft soap is said to be a more powerful remedy for the same purpose. Snorers who prefer to escape the application of this means of cure may do so by rearing with a handkerchief tied under the chin and over the bend, which will keep the mouth shut and the throat moist. — Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.