Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1933, Page 26

CURBS INSOMNIA AND ALGOHOLISM Sclentist Guides Thickening and Thinning Process in Brain. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Both sleeplessness and chronic alco- Bolism soon may be things of the past. Both problems are attacked from a mew viewpoint in a report just made to the National Academy of Sciences here by Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft, professor of | ¢ chemistry at Cornell University. He approached them from the same direc- tion in- which he is investigating the ehemistry of verious insanities. Dr. Bancroft holds these are due to thickening and thinning of the colloids of the brain, the former causing stupor- ous and the latter excited states. thickening and thinning can be induced various drugs, and Dr. Bancroft ims great success in treating psy- chotic patients with these substances, depending on the nature of their behavior. Now, ! he reports to the National Academy, he has experimented along the same line on his own sleeplessness, with the result that he now sleeps seven hours a night, while before he could sleep only about four hours. He also explains such phenomena as the hibernization of animals and the in- oerl;lsmq sleeplessness as persons grow er. Traces Sleep Producer. Normal sleep, he holds, is the result of aglomeration, or thickening, of the Pproteins of some centers of conscious- ness in the brain, which is brought about by a chemical substance of some kind which is produced by the body metabolism during waking activity. He designates this sleep producer as “X,” the nature of which has not yet been determined. The amount of this re- quired to put a person to sleep, he says, depends on the irritability of the sen- sory nerves. This explains why a per- son cag be “too tired to sleep,” the nerves having been rendered extremely drritable by toil or worry. It also ex- Pplains, Dr. Bancroft holds, why older people do not sleep so well, although ;l-tlekyx asfually need more rest than young olks. . So, he explains, the point at which sleeplesgness must be attacked in order to bring about normal sleep, in distinc- tion from slumber induced by an hyp- notic drug, is by tering some drug which will decrease the nervous frritation. For this he uses sodium rhodanate. He has experimented suc- cessfully, he says, on himself and sev- eral other persons, giving one dose every week or two. Dr. Bancroft says he has found he now can sleep soundly after drinking coffee at night, although he never could do so before. He takes 8 doseé of sodium rhodanate after dinner. Resulis Incomplete. “It i3 too soon to make a definite statement,” Dr. Bancroft says in the report to the National Academy, “but it looks as though sleeplessness should be a thing of the past for people who are not tuberculous and who do not have too weak hearts or kidneys. Any method of eliminating disturbances will make it easier to go to sleep. One of my friends stops thinking when he g0es to bed and goes promptly to sleep. I have never been able to apply this principle. Napoleon was probably a man who was always #ired to the point of sleep and who had the power to ignore at will most external and in- ternal disturbances.” Sodium rhodanate, Dr. Bancroft nts out, is not only a nerve sedative t also acts as a peptizer, or thinner- out, of the brain proteins so that it is rerdispersed. more difficult, Prof. Bancroft s, to explain why people wake up less they are driven to it by cold, hunger or internal disturbances. This, he belleves, is brought about by the production in the body of another chemical—probably closely allled with adrenalin—which acts as a dispersing ‘The production is going on all the time, he says, but normally is used up by the waking activities of the body. In sleep it accumulates and acts finally on the brain proteins. A great excess of this hypothetical substance, he says. would explain such phenomena es nightmares, which often ccme just be: ore waking. . Explains Hibernation. The reason animals are able to sleep all Winter, he says, is because the pro- duction of the waking chemical pro- ceeds very slowly when the body meta- bolism goes down, due to the falling temperature, and only begins to accu- mulaté with the return of the warm days of Spring. Alcohol also, Prof. Bancroft says, acts as an agglomeration agent on the brain proteins, and he reports 12 cases in which he has used a dispersing agent successfully, ranging from sobering a drunk quickly to quick relief of delirilum tremens. When sodium rhocanate is given a “drunk,” he says, a “decided alleviating effect can be demonstrated. There was no sudden transformation from a state of intoxication to normal.” “No claim can be made at present,” he continues, “that chronic alcoholism can be cured by this therapy, but our experience has been that the habit of alcoholic overindulgence can be checked @ good deal. Chronic alcoholism can be broken up and the patient returned to normal more rapidly than is usual in ‘medical practice.” P ROBBERS MISS DIME Laborer Beaten I;;qur Masked Men, Says Coin Was in Shge. SEATTLE, February 3 () —With & self-satisfied smile on his badly bat- tered face, William Smith, 27, laborer, limped into police station and told of- ficers he outwitted four masked men who attacked him Wednesday night. When he informed the bandits he had no money they became angry, :(;-‘kcd him down and beat him, Smith “But T sure fooled those guys. I had & dime in my shoe all the time, but they didn’t know it.” More than 800,000 cases of oranges were shipped from Haifa, Palestine, in the last season. ousness. 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