European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes monday september 26, 1977 modern Medicine beef cure for insomnia get a lot of sleep by Michael j. Halberstam . An insomniac broadly defined is any body who complains about too Little sleep. By some estimates half of All americans Over 15 years of age have complained of sleep Lack at some time during their lives. Among the bleary eyed Are temporary or situational insomniacs who cannot sleep be cause of loss of a Job or loved one unpaid Bills worries about health and the like. These bouts with insomnia May last a few nights or weeks. Chronic insomniacs for More obscure reasons have trouble falling and staying asleep almost nightly for weeks months and even years. But some sleep problems perhaps 15 per cent of the total arise from thinking makes it  these cases of pseudo insomnia occur because sufferers do not realize that some people sleep More efficiently than others and have different sleep needs and patterns. The average person needs seven to nine hours daily but some individuals thrive on As few As three hours of sleep. Napoleon and Thomas Edison needed Only 5 to 6 hours of sleep while Einstein needed up to 12 hours nightly. One 70-year-old women reported she Felt Fine after sleeping Only 52 minutes a Day and one Middle aged Man reportedly needed Only 15 minutes. I am sceptical about this latter report since Many people underestimate the amount of actual sleep they get. Some of these Short sleepers Nap during the Day. Edison s daily five hours included a number of naps and Winston Churchill could doze for a minute or two often while sitting upright in a chair. One Gambler used to Catnap for two or three minutes Between deals while he stayed up most of the night playing poker. Fre quent naps said one wag will keep you from getting old especially if you take them while  other examples of pseudo insomniacs a wife sleeps Only six hours while her husband needs eight or nine. She takes sleeping pills thinking she has insomnia. Another woman Falls asleep at 10 p.m., her husband at 2 ., and he is labelled an insomniac. The problem Here is not insomnia but trying to Force natural sleep patterns to conform to someone else  a great extent sleep habits Are governed by biological or circadian rhythm from the latin circa about and Dies a. Day. Many bodily functions such As heart rate blood pressure muscle tone and Hor Mone secretions operate on a 23 to 25-hour  not everybody conforms. Some people operate on a 26 or 27-hour Cycle and Are con stantly out of step with the rest of the world. Anybody who has Ever experienced Jet lag after travelling to another time zone knows How disrupted circadian rhythm  people have a recently discovered disorder called circadian phase  they cannot and will not sleep until 3  Or later but then they sleep for a Normal eight hours. They Are great at saturday night Par ties assuming they can sleep late on sunday. But rousing for work on monday morning is an  can an insomniac pseudo or real get a Good night s sleep . Fields once advised that the Best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of  in other words Stop worrying. Occasional sleep loss by itself does not endanger health although it May affect mood and disposition. Eventually nature will intervene to provide the needed amount of sleep. Insomnia lasting three weeks or More however May signal other disorders and should be checked by a physician. Next ask when the insomnia first started. What events and worries coincided of the possible causes of insomnia depression Heads the list closely followed by anxiety grief chronic stress and tension. In such cases the cure for insomnia depends upon solving the underlying  pills sedatives and Tranquilin ers used with a physician s guidance All have a definite place in overcoming Tempo Rary sleeplessness. Certain foods milk and milk products especially induce sleep in some people perhaps because they contain amino acids that act indirectly Asse  the old familiar Glass of warm milk does t work try to break the Cycle of sleeplessness with self conditioning. If you cannot sleep within 10 to 15 minutes after lying Down get out of bed go to another room and read or do whatever you like until you again feel sleepy. Return to the bedroom and if sleep does not come within 15 minutes repeat the process. After two or three nights of this ordeal you will be sleepy and the bed room will again become a place of rest not restlessness. C new York times Low risk heart surgery without transfusions Chicago a heart surgery can be performed safely without blood transfusions a Texas surgical team says. The Doc tors say their experience shows that those who object to transfusions on religious grounds can be accommodated. Drs. Denton a. Cooley and David a. Ott of the Texas heart Institute in Houston report that Over the past 20 years they have per formed 542 such operations on patients of the Jehovah s witnesses Faith which does not believe in blood transfusions. The Overall Early mortality rate those who died within 30 Days after surgery was 9.4 per cent they write in the sept. 19 Issue of the journal of the american medical association. Three of the 51 deaths were related to blood loss. In another 12, postoperative anaemia was a contributing Factor. The others died of causes not related to the loss of blood. The doctors say they used established techniques in operating on the patients who ranged in age from one Day to 89 years. Our experience supports the Contention that patients who refuse blood transfusion for religious reasons can undergo major cardiovascular operations with an acceptably Low risk Ott and Cooley said. They quoted the belief of the Jehovah s witnesses that acceptance of blood or blood products results in forfeiture of the Chance for resurrection and eternal Salva  they said that the surgeon who agrees to treat Jehovah s witnesses should respect their religious beliefs or refer them else where. We believe that a patient should have a right to make his or her own decision and that the physician has a moral responsibility to respect the wishes of the patient Ott and Cooley said. 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Buzzy said he was sorry that he lost his head and promised never to do such a thing again. I forgave him. The next Day my Mother saw the Teeth Marks and asked what happened. When i told mom Buzzy bit me she was horrified said a human bite can be very dangerous. Is this True so far i am . Nipped dear nipped yes she is right. Every human Mouth is loaded with bacteria. You could have gotten a bad infection. If that Clown Ever bites you again Wash the wound with soap and water see a doctor promptly and Send Buzzy for a Long walk on a Short Dock. Dear Ann i was ticked off by the letter from the office worker who complained because a per Sonal letter was opened by some one in the mail room. You can see from this station Ery i am the president of a Well known company. I do not pay the mail room girl a salary to deliver personal letters to my employees. Nor do i pay my employees to read their personal mail on my time. I la bet you la hear a lot on this subject from Bosses All Over the country and they will All be on my Side. Third Eye dear Eye i did and they were. What s More As an employer i must say you have a Point. Read on if you want to know what the postal authorities in Chicago had to say All mail addressed to a Busi Ness regardless of whether it is marked personal is delivered according to the instructions issued by the head of the business unless it is registered mail. If the Boss says All mail delivered to the mail room is to be opened so be it. Personal and confidential has no Legal Force. Ibis does not mean however that the Boss has the right to open letters addressed to others. The directive applies Only to the letter opener in the mail room. Dear Ann in one of your re plies recently you asked where Are the state police Well they were probably on the Highway doing their Job but with All the matters on . S they Don t stand a Chance of catching Many speeders. Those . Ers Are forever warning each other to look out for the county mountie City Kitty Smokey Bear or Pic Ture  from the Way you answered that letter i have a Hunch you Are a Good Driver. And when you gave your handle As Lincoln land Annie baby i just knew you were a . Or of Long stand ing. How about the Lowdown Green eyed Luke from Creaky Canyon dear creak wrong on both counts. I quit driving 20 years ago As my contribution to the pedestrians of Chicago. That handle was one i made up at the typewriter. C 1977 Field enterprises inc