SLEEPS FOR TWO DAYS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2135, 1 June 1920, Page 3

SLEEPS FOR TWO DAYS.

MAN’S STRANGE EXPERIENCE,

WRONG MEDICINE TAKEN,

A strange experience on the part of a Napier resident who is fairly well known, lias been reported. Feeling completely out of sorts, he visited a doctor, who told him that he needed a holiday, and should cease worrying over anything at all. The patient said that he could not sleep, and his appearance bore out' his statement.

The man of physic gave him two prescriptions, one a well-known tonic, and the other a sleeping draft. In due time these prescriptions were made up and the patient went home. Having much faith in the doctor, the patient decided that he could not have 100 much of a good tiling, so ho promptly swallowed a goodly portion of the tonic. He soon became so drowsy that he had to he carried to bed, where he slept soundly all night. He forgot: to wake up next morning, and his friends became alarmed. However, he was permit ted to sleep on. As night fell, alarm gave place to consternation, and the doctor was hnrricdlv summoned.

Everythin"' possible was done to wake up (he patient, but without effect, and he continued to sleep on. After exertions ext ending: over 24 hours, the over-tired man was induced to return to n normal condition.

When he was sufficiently composed, he was told by the medical man that he had taken about six normal doses of the sleeping draft, and that as he had had a complete rest he would not need the tonic nor the holida y.—Telegraph. •