The oeconomy of health : or, a medical essay: containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity: in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper.

Date:
[1785?]
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Credit: The oeconomy of health : or, a medical essay: containing new and familiar instructions for the attainment of health, happiness and longevity: in which the nature of the human mind is accurately investigated, and its union and connexion with the body systematically explained / by Andrew Harper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    [ *8 ] dant Growth, ftrengthens the foft Fibres, and confirms the Stamina. Sound Sleep, continued for feven or eight Hours, is, in general, quite fufficient for the Purpofe of Reftoration, yet female, and delicate Confutations require rather more. Too much Sleep weakens the Nerves, renders the Temper peevifh, and predifpofes to Apoplexy and Palfy, it like wife creates a lethargic and indolent Difpofition, difqua- lifies for ACtion, and blunts the Energy both of the intellectual and corporeal Facul- ties. On the other Hand, nothing can be more pernicious than the Lofs of Sleep, and Want of due Reft. Watching, by exciting an artificial Fever, and by ftimu- lating the nervous Syftem, when its Powers are already exhaufted, effectually waftes the Strength, debilitates the Body, and lays it open to every Attack, efpecially to nervous and phrenitic Fevers.