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Quackery or Therapy? patients who were being treated for hyper tension. I was told that mental patients were treated .similarly. In a fashionable Paris clinic, soft music is played in the wards; but at the. Leningrad clinic of Pro fessor Chernorutsky, not the slightest sound is permitted, not even the click of a door closing or a nurse's footfall. Professor Chernorutsky uses the treat ment for ulcer cases. He induces sleep by giving regular anesthetics. By isolating the brain, the long sleep prevents the body tissues from reacting to the ulcer and frees the ulcer to "sleep itself out." In Germany the sleep cure has been used with apparent success as a slimming treatment Perhaps the best place to study the sleep cure is at two private Swiss clinics, Prangins and La Metairie, both on Lake Geneva near Lausanne. Neither is recommended for those with limited funds the bill for a month's snooze can run up to $1,000. At these clinics the newly arrived pa tient first is given a thorough physical checkup. Then he receives a morphine de rivative to calm him down. Next comes an injection to send him off into a light sleep, and, from then on, drugs are administered daily to keep him that way. The patient is awakened for meals at the usual times. If he is very sleepy, he is spoon-fed, although usually he can sit up and feed himself.-At regular intervals he is bathed and led to the bathroom. Then he slides back into sleep. Reactions vary greatly. Some patients cannot remember what they ate at their last meal. Others have total recall of what happened to them during their periods of semi-wakefulness. The patient's return to normal after two or three weeks of sleeping is gradual. Even after a single week's sleep, he needs four or five days of "convalescence" before he emerges from the general mood of woozi ness. But then suddenly: Bam! He is wide awake and is eager for work and action. All sleep systems are consistent on this: sleep must be kept light, nothing more than a doze. Experiments in deep sleep, which were carried out in Germany as early as l!)2.r, were instructive and resulted in some remarkable cures, but the heavy sleep carried considerable danger. Patients 1 had to be tube-fed and given enemas. Too profoundly asleep to cough and thus clear the lungs, they became subject to broncho pneumonia. The frequently astonishing re coveries did not compensate for a 10-percent mortality rate. One of the chief problems of the sleep cure and a reason for the widespread medical distrust of the treatment is the fact that sleep itself is still a mystery to medicine and science. Little is known about it. Doctors really do not know what sleep does for the body or even whether sleep is necessary at all. But whatever the merits of the cure, a profusion of new means of inducing sleep continues to pop up in medical journals from London to Moscow. The French claim to have discovered a sleep hormone which necessitates a drop-by-drop transfusion. The Russians, prob ubly the most advanced people in the world on this particular subject, have gone into mass production with a delicate instru ment called an Elektroson which induces "electric sleep." Electrodes are placed on the eyelids, behind the ears, and at the base of the brain. The patient feels a slight, agreeable pulsation behind the eyes and a prickly feeling about the eyelids; then he goes to sleep. Lives have been saved by the sleep treat I ment. In 1961 an English girl, Jennifer Uavey, was dying from tetanus. Unable to breathe because of the paralysis of her lungs, she was put into an artificial lung and sent into a two-week sleep. This un knotted the muscles, and she made a com plete recovery. The British Medical Journal reported the case of a mentally sick boy in a New castle, Australia, hospital in September, 1959. An appeal went out to Russia for the Elektroson. The message was relayed to an Australian writer in Moscow who bought the apparatus for $200 and en trusted it to an airline stewardess. Be cause of its delicacy, it had to be carried on the laps of crew members for the entire flight to Australia. The application was said to be successful and the boy's dis turbance to have diminished. At a fashionable clinic in Paris I asked a doctor what types of people needed the sleep cure most Without hesitation, he replied, "Jazz musicians. More than any other artists, they are genuinely tied up in knots inside." I asked about movie stars and was given a reply of appropriate Gallic realism. "Film stars are a different matter," he said. "They think the sleep cure sounds chic; they enjoy talking about it at cocktail parties. But between you and me, few movie stars really need it In their profes sion they rarely think enough for their brains to get tired." Family Wrrkly. 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