Medicine: Sleep Starvation

"Sleep Starvation Tries Looks!" cried the fashion column of London's Daily Telegraph last week, bravely offering health & beauty advice to a host of war-worried feminine readers. "Even the women who are accustomed to fall asleep as soon as their heads touch the pillows may be suffering from a minor form of insomnia, and the real victims of insomnia may be having a worse time than usual." To save British complexions from wrinkles etched by air-raid fears, the Telegraph offered with a straight face the following pseudo-scientific "receipts for easy sleep."

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