Copy 1, Volume 1
The code of health and longevity. Or, A concise view, of the principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life... / By Sir John Sinclair.
- Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet
- Date:
- 1807
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The code of health and longevity. Or, A concise view, of the principles calculated for the preservation of health, and the attainment of long life... / By Sir John Sinclair. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![bk 2] the body, will readily be granted; on the other hand, nothing contributes more to the production of disease, than too little sleep, and that interrupted. At three watches, the men have time to shift and dry themselves, if wet ; at two, the time allotted for rest being so short, they are prompted to rush into their beds in the wet condition in which they often come from the deck ; and of what conse- quence it is to avoid going to sleep in wet clothes, is too obvious to need any comment, and comes home to the feelings of every capacity. When there is no pressing oc- casion, ought not a seaman to be refreshed with as much uninterrupted sleep, as a common day labourer * ? 2. To have Dry Clothes to shift themselves after getting Wet. What has been observed on the foregoing head, will also apply to this ; suffice it to say, that Captain Cook paid the strictest attention to this head, by directing some of his of- ficers, to see that every man, on going wet from his watch, was immediately shifted with dry clothes, and the same method observed on their going to bed f. = ey Lae deck; they are relieved every four hours, until four o’clock in the after- noon, when there are two watches of two hours each. According to | this plan, they will have alternately, one day eight hours sleep, and the other day four. “When at three watches, they have, for two days, eight hours sleep complete, but every third day they are only allowed four hours sleep at once; and after a watch of four hours, called the middle watch, they have four hours more. Four watches are practised in har- bours merely. * It is true that some truly meritorious officers keep their people at two watches, and preserve them in a perfect state of health, but they are most rigid observers of every other part of this plan. + The late Lord Mulgrave, in his voyage towards the noxth pole, on . his](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33089127_0001_0786.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
