Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — Sleep is the Best Stimulant. [ARTICLE]

Sleep is the Best Stimulant.

The best possible thing for a man to do when he feels too weak to carry anything through is to go to bed and sleep for a week if he can. This is the only'recuperation of brain power, the only actual recuperation of brain force: because, during sleep, the brain is in a state of rest, in a condition to receive and appropriate particles of nutriment from the blood, which take the place of those which have teen consumed in previous labor, sincdVhe very act of thinking consumes or bums up solid particles, as every turn of the wheel or screw of the splendid steamer is the result of consumption by fire of the fuel in the furnace. The supply of consumed [brain Substance can only be had from the nutritive particles in the blood, which were obtained from the food eaten previously; and the brain is so constituted that it can best receive mid appropriate to itself those nutritive particles during a state of rest, of quiet, and stillness of sleep. Mere stimulants supply nothing in themselves; they goad the brain, ma force it to greater consumption of its Substance, until that substance has been so exhausted that there is not power enough left to receive a supply, lust as men are so near death by thirst and starvation that there is not power enough left to swallow anything, and all is over. Scientific American. ; It is said that the London brokers, taking advantage of the French yitrow of indignation over the Suez transfer, “ unloaded” some of their surplus Turkish and Egyptian stocks in Pans just before the market fell. *'->