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SLEEPING PILLS: THE FIRST SLEEPING PILLS
Insomnia is not a new disease. The ancient Egyptians remarked that one of the worst things in life is to be in bed and be unable to sleep. The word ‘hypnotic’ comes from the name of the Greek god of sleep, Hypnos. Throughout the centuries, drugs have been available to help with sleeplessness. However, as more and more hypnotic drugs have become available, more and more people have come to suffer from insomnia. It is possible that modern life is more competitive than life in the past, and insomnia becomes a symptom of modern, busy city life. It is also possible that people are more aware that there is a drug for treating insomnia, whereas in the past people suffering from insomnia would have had to put up with it rather than seek treatment Hence this gives an artificial increase in the number of people with insomnia who take sleeping pills.
The drugs. For many years, opium and alcohol were the only remedies for helping insomnia. In 1869, chloral hydrate was discovered and became the first synthetic hypnotic drug. This was widely used at that time and is still used even now. Choral hydrate is relatively short acting; it is marketed in Australia as Noctec, Dormel, and Chloralix.
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