Excerpt from The National Medical Review, Vol. 7: June, 1897 A confirmed dyspeptic was afflicted with insomnia to a most distressing de gree. One evening just before retiring, out of Sheer desperation, she ate 3. Ba nana. This was followed by a good night's rest, and to our knowledge the practice of eating a banana just before retiring has been followed for some weeks, with no other result than insur ing a good night's rest. The other case was an obstinate diarrhoea which had withstood the efforts of the physician for some weeks. The patient declared that he would then treat himself. He as sured us that for three days he ate noth ing but crackers and cheese, with the re sult that he was completely cured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.