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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    As to the debilitating which take place in the latter hours of a night’s sleep, even the married sometimes complain, not only of the debility, but of various other things, as pain in the back, listlessness, want of concentration of mind, bad memory, des- pondency, and easily tired; but none of these are necessarily the symptoms of what they have been led to believe by reading mischievous and demoral- izing books. In nine cases out of ten, these symp- toms have no real existence; they are the creations of a morbid sensibility. The best cure for this state of things is to exercise manly courage and resolution enough to drive them away from the mind, by en- gaging in some active, invigorating, useful, and pro- fitable business; one which will allow no time for useless and idle moping about. The early morning debilitations are certainly a reality, but if not connected with present vicious habits, a.nd they do not occur half a dozen times a month, they can not have any specially disturbing ill effect of long continuance. But these debilita- tions do occur to the virtuously married, and all ought to know it, without any moral guilt, but from one of two directly opposite causes—too frequent or two infrequent marital indulgences ; the mean, pro- per to each individual, must, like sleep, be ascer- tained by an intelligent observation. All rules in this regard would be as ridiculously absurd as those which prescribe how much each man should eat, or work, or sleep; each constitution, each system should have the amount proper to it, and any excess or de- ficiency will always and inevitably result in decided and permanent harm to the whole body, if persisted in. The only possible method of determining wisely, safely, and certainly what each requires, is the exer- cise of an intelligent observation on effects from a greater or lesser number. - Generally, if healthy,
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