Some observations on the origin and progress of the atrabilious temperament and gout. Chap. IV. containing the regular, cardinal fit / by William Grant.
- William Grant
- Date:
- 1781
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations on the origin and progress of the atrabilious temperament and gout. Chap. IV. containing the regular, cardinal fit / by William Grant. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[ 7' ] the morning when he went to bed early, and how languid and faint he has found ** himfelf after fitting up late. And though ther,e may feem to be no ^ difference betwixt going, to bed earlier *' or later, provided a perfon lies in bed *' the fame number of hours ; as for in- ** ftance, whether he goes to bed at nine ** and rifes at five, or at eleven and rifes ** at feven j yet it is not fo: and I conceive *' for this reafon principally, that in the day the fpirits are diffipated, either by exercifes of the body or mind, which are *' fo weak, in fickly perfons, that they re- ** quire the aififtance of fleep earlier in the evening; and as the approach of night ** occafions a kind of relaxation of the ** animal ceconoray, the tone of which was kept up in the day by the heat of the ** fun, the warmth of the bed becomes ne- ceffary to fupply the place of the fun, efpecially in the winter feafon. But the fj^irits being refreflied and in- *^ vigorated in the morning by the pre- ** ceding night's fleep, together with the ** ^yarmth of the bed ; and the enfuing day *• likewife ftrengthening the tone of the parts ftill more, the riling early at this time, though it' may take an hour or two from the morning fleep, hurts the confl:itution lefs than fitting up an hour](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22304903_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
