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

  • William Whitty Hall
Date:
1870
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Credit: Sleep, or, The hygiene of the night / by W.W. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and immediate access to all the medical discoveries of the civilized world; hence no stranger, or charla- tan, or pretender can possibly be ahead oi them, can possibly know any thing which they do not know. “LOSSES,” ETC. As to those “ losses ” which result from early habits learned from evil associations, one impression is here sought to be made on every reader, that no medicine known can by any possibility repress or “ stop ” them permanently, except such as endanger the power of the system and life itself. Repressing a thing of this kind is no more a “ cure ” than it is a cure to drive in measles, nettle-rash, tetter and the like. The most uninformed know that the striking- in of measles and such ailments can never be done with impunity, that life is always endangered there- by. So with the monthlies, and so with the subject in question. Nature will find a vent or make one in some way, as to the unmarried, once or twice a month or even thrice; if these bounds are not ex- ceeded, it is not unhealthful. In proportion as they are exceeded, there is debility, nervousness, etc., as named in previous pages. To give some idea of the power it requires to repress, the remedies ordinarily employed are not only poisons, but those of the most virulent character, a grain or two of which cause immediate and certain death, such as strychnine, gelsemin, ignatia mara, nux vomica, etc., but in order not to excite apprehension, less formidable names are appended to the prescriptions. If this is not suffi- cient to deter from medicinal remedies, or any reme- dies from any one except the family physician, it may be enough to append a letter received April 5th, 18H2, one of a class innumerable received bv city practitioners : “ These habits were contracted
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