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I9if>- AN OLD CASE OF CHRONIC INSOMNIA. By William Renwick Rioobll. LL. D.. F. R. H. S., Toronto. An extraordinatv character in the early history of Up^r Canada was Robert (Fleming) Gem . "e'oiilir Scotland of a ntoderate^ -"g,, -^ ; ^niversiS^rfe e"l out wlTEarl of Kellie at ?3«eBs?l'^t:fo„'a?i^""i *8%'^He°'sor'.roM"'wX.hrj:.h?rfen;; Sr Snada! anTSn ,819 he was banished ftom rtafpro^ince. Then he went to E"e^?f '"4^; Sdr^SSharhe'horsSppSSia K,^. th\c Vip refused to do for over three years. &Sg SreS of" athe got out and shortly theg- ^fter came to New York and later to Canada. He ^sterS the Parliament of Canada about h.s treat- Sirdo«fHfsS went again to Scotland, where he died at the age ot ''^S^rclse'presents more than one curious aspect n.e^ cally bSt I propose to speak at length on^y of nne Passing over the facts that he ,vas almost m- ^tnTn iail at Niagara before his banishment, '""/thJ^The fS ing for Ws reason on his return to EnVand th-w'hfmself on the parish and broke Copyright, .9.6. by A. R. Elliott Publishing Company. stones alleged NidJcll. Old Case of Insomnia. ! in;r'"?ia°'' "'°""'''' ' ^'^" '^^ °"'y of He^IlSu''°'^u '^i'e wholly frou, his u/t ' "* '^^^ 'his did - own writing. T*" '"" "'" »oi trouble him till iXi? perfect Sth IS .,?"",? ''"• "=* generaljy in mom%''S''„'l,hraV?"Lt"o^tt;/'.'£^^^^ quite enoueh fo«- r^ef o„^ • " ^'^P was \T^ '^"""Sn lo. rest and enjoyment in a trte fta^Jri' ^tV " <* »• ™- discomfort 3uepwTs'om^',''r '" ""JP^-kable ship from GreenSlivSo°/ra„'i„r?r- '^"^ and was at sm «ji ft, ^'^*='^Poo' ran >nto a hurricane wereX^ai;;'i tt Sdin^on^fiVr "''^•'^^ on board his ship for New Yo?k he ioW 1 ^ ^°"?^ h.s condition, and was ad vis A ''take a trXl^ before going to bed at Liverpool He dTr? «n ^^ got some sleep: but all the wav over frnm M ' ^""^ her 9th to December 22nd he had nnfT ^-T"": sleep. Uudanum. opium getting tiDsv^ll"^'"^ -^ vain; the -grog" indeed nU?e Sm Sor .hffi "^ time at .ea, but he got no sleep ThsDeSof^i" le^ness. It will be seen, wa. o^f mir'e' thKl^^ 1^ the\'Snr?f1ar^°"x8^'-'''"rt''y' ^'^■°' '" ^o^y weeKe-dJ^^,\tKtrhaTr- About January. 1839. the insomnia again set in. I Hidd,U: Old Case of Insomnia. mmmms 5; 7„i?o cumins. a„.l he will no. -e»;"^a, he approach to sleep ; ^J'^ about a yea ^^^ "ff Morpheus passed, as he thinks in^u . °^ "^^^^^ nights been made quite ela^^ L'TV^^^^^^^^ *' has No medical man coidd V fo *"? '''/' '" ^^^^ sleep, ''ourlay couS pass 'ar, m' ^'^°^l>"^ved that he did nothing but re^t n >t Tn"'°"* '^''P' ^^^" '^ hisbeingmenfallv - L? n '"^'V'°" »he fact of tically the X'e'peMod ' ''"^ '^"^'^^ ^"""^ P^^- his generafill hStS Wh'en L^'LT^.l-^'^^' "^ stitution, naturally stron^an f ^-^ ^^^ ^'^ *^°"- forty years of age si Sri hv ^, ^T"'' '^^^ *'" a farmer, riding^^nd tarCmSS '^^h""*-''^^ k^^ t^ktn cum grano salts. InKh.' ^'"^'""st be move to England on accium^hfs h^^L^^y^l '° >ng a change of climate necessarv " Tn i '■^"''"■ of 181 5 he had to eo ta Chll^' u " ^^^ summer waters there on acco^°„t of illSr O '"'^ *'^ to Upper Canada, he was confine?! /^.^, u '''*"""& two months by sickness At) 1^ the house for confinement in N.Sa " iai? TU '^^' ^^°'"*^ ^he quent attacks of erySis Ln ."'^^^''■' ^''' ^'^- » Hiddill: Old Case of Insomnia. Stain«. Using his own words. ^ he ^^"ffy^^/,°; vpar* from a nervous ilisease. He guar