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Hassan, and he, wise man, gave her a sedative and ordered her to bed, though the afternoon was still young. It was the first long sleep she had had for weeks, and the refreshment came at the time of her direst need, for at daybreak the summons roused her.
"It's a ticklish thing," said Farnsworth, rumpling his hair. "If I give him enough sedative to keep him quiet his heart may stop any time. If I don't, he'll thrash himself to pieces in his delirium before the day's over." But Cleggett scarcely heeded the Doctor. The reference to "Loge's" skull had flashed a sudden light into his mind.
By early retirement to rest, the sedative effect on the constitution, to an extent such as to disturb the functions, is escaped.
"Leave 'Martin Zeda' alone for once, and read a really cheerful book!" Leroux forced a smile to his lips. "The correction of these proofs," he said diffidently, "exacts no great mental strain, but is sufficient to distract my mind. Work, after all, is nature's own sedative." "I rather agree with Mr. Leroux, Denise," said Helen; "and really you must allow him to know best."
Like the great German poet Goethe, he preferred to exercise his art in the fresh morning hours, when the dewdrops, as it were, lay bright upon his imagination and fancy. And for relaxation and sedative, when he had thoroughly worn himself out with mental toil, he would have recourse to the hardest bodily exercise.
But only experience can show what will have this sedative effect, and it is easy to make mistakes. We feel dissatisfaction, and think that such and-such a thing would remove it; but in thinking this, we are theorizing, not observing a patent fact.
The cruel potion had possession of me, and entered into every fibre of my brain through the avenues prepared for it by the treacherous anodyne; so that, enervated and intoxicated, I yielded passively, after a brief struggle, to the power of the then newly-invented sedative, called chloroform.
Another excellent bath in use at water-cures, of value both for its tonic and sedative properties, is "the dripping sheet," in which a sheet like that used in the pack, of strong muslin and ample size, is immersed in a pail of fresh water at about 70 F., and, without wringing, spread around the standing patient so as to envelop him from neck to feet, the attendant rubbing him energetically with hands outside it for several minutes till he is all aglow.
Fame depends on literature, not on architecture. We are more eager to see a broken column of Cicero's villa, than all those mighty labours of barbaric power. Mrs. Blair is full of enthusiasm. She told me that when she worked with her pencil she was glad to have some one to read to her as a sort of sedative, otherwise her excitement made her tremble, and burst out a-crying.
His displeasure was expressed in broken sentences, partly muttered to himself, partly addressed to the domestics who stood around; and particularly to his cupbearer, who offered him from time to time, as a sedative, a silver goblet filled with wine "Why tarries the Lady Rowena?"
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