Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — Sleep the Beet Brain Stimulant. [ARTICLE]

Sleep the Beet Brain Stimulant.

The best possible thing for a man to do when he feels too weak to cany anything through, is to go to bed and sleep as long as 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 partidea of nutriment from the blood, which take the place of those which have been consumed by previous labor, since the very act of thinking bums up solid particles, aa every turn of the wheel or screw of the 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 constiluted that it can best receive and 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 mid force it to a greater consumption of its substance until it is so exhausted that there is not power enough left to receive a supply .—Herald IMA.