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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    ' APPENDIX. SLEEPING WITH OTHERS. While these pages were passing through the press, the following case came under the author’s attention: “ My son, eight years old, is lively and well in all respects, as far as I can judge, in the day, but .it night he wakes up and screams in the most dis- tressing manner. He awakes frightened almost every night for a year. He has been subject to this for several years, but it is getting to be a distressino case. I almost dread to go to sleep. He sleeps with me, and once every night, sometimes twice, he springs as quick as lightning, screams the most soul-piercino- screams, and I take him in my arms, and he looks back, with horror on his face. I could not, unless you saw it, give you an idea of how distressing it is He is strong and lively, playful, and full of fun and me, until he gets to sleep. This happens every nio-ht and often it so shocks me I can not go to sleep for a ong time. He takes dinner at one, supper at sun- down, of cambric tea with a piece of bread. All mv other children are entirely different; they are lively hearty, and cheerful, and so is he, otherwise ” I he directions given were on the presumption that these eilects in the child were caused by sleeping in the same bed with the father, habitually. In two months, the report was made that “ he had not waked up frightened tor a long time.” The national troubles at this point put an end to the correspondence It may be instructive to know under what bodily symp- toms the father had been laboring for some yearn but whom the author succeeded in restoring to ^better heal th than had been enjoyed for seven years.” A^e thirty-seven; hight, five feet seven; broad-sholl-
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