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Hypnotics logo #10101) Sleeping pills
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Hypnotics logo #21217Hypnotics are agents which induce sleep. They act in one of two ways, either by producing temporary anaemia of the brain, or by lowering the excitability of nerve-cells. Natural sleep is accompanied by cerebral anaemia, and this is why a warm bath aids sleep as it dilates the skin-vessels and so diverts a considerable part of the blood-supply from ...
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