Copy 1, Volume 1

The study of medicine. Containing all the author's ... improvements / [John Mason Good].

  • John Mason Good
Date:
1829
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Credit: The study of medicine. Containing all the author's ... improvements / [John Mason Good]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and body should be kept free from all undue fatigue and commotion, and the diet be light, especially towards the evening. The action of the bowels should be kept regular; and perhaps, as Dr. Darwin recommends, a mattress or harder bed than usual should be used, and an alarum clock hung up in the room, so that the sleep may be interrupted at short intervals. [The patient should sleep with his head raised on high pillows, and lie on his side. If the func- tions of the stomach be much disordered, the directions already given for the relief of dyspepsia and other affec- tions of this organ, should be followed.] These plans will su- persede the use of the feeble medicines which were formerly in vogue for the cure of night-mare, as saffron and peony ; and will render superfluous all further inquiry into a sub- ject which once exercised the pen of the learned, whether the latter was or was not a specific in the form of an amulet. GEN. V. Spec. IT. Ephialtes nocturnus.