Sleep, or, The hygiene of the night / by W.W. Hall.

  • William Whitty Hall
Date:
1870
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sleep, or, The hygiene of the night / by W.W. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Because, here I can manage the windows myself.’ And it is true. “ Do you ever go into the bed-rooms of any persons of any class, whether they contain one, two, or twenty people, whether they hold sick or well, at night, or before the windows are opened in the morning, and ever find the air any thing but unwholesomely close and foul ? And why should it be so ? And of how much importance is it that it should not be so ? Dur- ing sleep the human body, even when in health, is far more injured by the influence of foul air than when awake. Why can’t you keep the air all night, then, as pure as the air without, in the rooms you sleep in? But for this, you must have sufficient outlet for the impure air you make yourselves, to go out; sufficient inlet for the pure air fiom without, to come in. You must have open chimneys, open windows, or ventilators; no close curtains round your beds; no shutters or curtains to your windows; none of the contrivances by which you undermine your own health, or destroy the chances of recovery of your sick.” As proof, if more is needed, of the impure state of the atmosphere of a chamber, or, in- 25*
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