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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    grown persons sleep less than seven hours in twenty- four, they are apt to be “dull” during the day; if they sleep nine or ten hours out of the twenty-tour, they are also “dull,” because, in attempting to get so much sleep, to force on nature more than slie requires, the whole amount of sleep is imperfect; the faculties are imperfectly nourished and recreated, hence are “ dull ” also. Precisely so in the case in hand ; the “ debilitations” follow au excess or a de- ficit. Begin with a weekly restraint of fifty per cent, and If these debilitations diminish in frequency within a month, then excess has been the cause; and vice versa. Let the married so regulate the matter, that there shall be no debilitations from one yeai s end to another. The whole subject is a delicate one, and the reader’s sympathy is claimed in the contem- plation of the difficulty of the endeavor to convey most important practical information, needed in every family, and at the same time to avoid pandering to depravity The city practitioner is often consulted by persons laboring under distressing apprehensions of indefinite calamities, from that prolific source of ills, pernicious reading, as found in books which they would not care to have it known they pos- sessed. A lightish-colored, glairy substance, resem- bling somewhat the white of an egg in appearance, consistency, and color, is observed to follow a pas- sage from the bowels or urination, sometimes leaving a stain. This is uniformly represented in the pub- lications referred to as a most momentous attair, a symptom which threatens enormous ills; and bem^ a symptom of no special importance, easily rectified, if necessary in a few days, by trifling remedies it serves at' once as a foundation for exorbitant charges, and the gaining of considerable credit for the skill and ability of the charlatan engaged in the nefarious deceptions. There are not three cases in a
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