Queries at a mess table : what shall I eat? what shall I drink? / by Joshua Duke.
- Duke, Joshua, 1847-
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Queries at a mess table : what shall I eat? what shall I drink? / by Joshua Duke. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![less distressing and injurious than after one or two.” Four hours’ real unbroken sleep will keep most middle-aged men going. As the years advance, men sleep less and wake up earlier. But if a man can enjoy it, he is no doubt all the better for eight hours. “ When it is recalled that we absorb twice as much oxygen in a given time during sleep as when awake, the great importance to health of free circulation of air in the bedroom is evident. It is during the night that the Haemoglobin of the blood is largely built up, and, during a period of rest of the tissues, oxygen is specially needed to com- plete oxidation and removal of the effete ])roducts of tissue waste.” From this, it is evident that fresh air is a necessity and the wise man will always sleep with the upper sash of the window open at all times. In India, many persons deliberate- ly undress and sleep in the day time before or after lunch, and a good deal is to be said in its favour. Personally it is a habit 1 never adopted although I must own to often enjoying a sleep in the arm-chair.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28983208_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
