Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-12-29
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inH TO bed. III dir 1fv - : (. fHsa uq
-ds4ths When a-bed. one should not lie in a
forced'of constrained posture, but almost hor-
izontai II the head excepted, which ought to
bea little raised. Nothing is more preiudi-
Chatham to lie in bed halfsiting. The BODY
then forms an angle; circulation in the stom-
ach is checked, and the spine is always very
much compressed. BY this custom, one Of
the principal ends Of sleep, free and unin-
terrupted circulation of the blood, is defeated
and in infancy and youth, deformity and crook
edness are often is consequences.
9th. All the cares and burden Of the day
must be laid aside with ones clothes; none
of them must be carried to bed with us and,
in this respect, one by custom may obtain very
great power over the thoughts. l am ac-
quainted with no practice more destructive
than that of studying in bed, and of reading
till one falls asleep. BY these means the soul
is put into too great activity, at period when
everything conspires to allow it perfect rest
and II is natural that the ideas, thus excited,
should wander and float through the brain
during the whcle night. 1t is not enough to
sleep physically man must sleep also spirit
ually. Such disturbed sleep is as INSULT
cient as its opposite,-that is, when our spir-
itual part sleeps, but not our corporeal such
for example, as sleep in jOlting carriage on
journey. 1rrarH riao lh f..Ha1
9th. One circumstance, in particular, must
not here omit to mention. Many believe that
it's entirely the same if one sleeps these seven
| hours either in the day or the night time.-
) People give themselves up, therefore, at night,
as long as they think proper, either to study
1 or pleasure; and imagine that they make ev-
erything even when they sleep in the fore
noon those hours which they sat up after mid
: night. But must request every one who re-
CARDS his health, to beware Of so seducing an
error. 1t is certainly not the same whether
one sleeps seven hours by day or by night ;
and two hours sound sleep before midnight
1 are of more benefit to the body than four hours
I in the day. My reasons are as follows:
That period of twenty-four hours, formed
, by the regular revolution Of our earth, in
which all its inhabitants partake, is particular
/. ly distinguished in the physical economy Of
man. This regular period is apparent in all
diseases; and all the other small periods. so
wonderful in our physical history, are by it in
reality determined. 1t is, as it were, the uni
ty Of our natural chronology. Now, it is OBJ
(, served, that the more the end of these periods
comedies with the conclusion of the day, the
more is the pulsation accelerated and a fe-
e versh state is produced, or the so-called even
! ing fever, TO which every man is subject
The accession of new chyle to the blood may
I, in all probability, contribute something to-
! wards this fever, though it is not the only
, cause for we find it in sick people, who have
e neither eaten nor drunk, 1t is more owing,
without doubt, to the absence Of the sun and
to that revolution in the atmosphere which is
connected with it. This evening fever is the
! reason why nervous people find themselves
! more fit for labor at night than during the day.
:. To become active, they must first have an ar
tifcal stimulus and the evening fever sup
: plies the place of wine. But one may easily
> perceive that this is an unnatural state; and
the consequences are the same as those Of ev-
cry simple fever-lassitude, sleep, and a cri-
sis, by the perspisation which takes place dur
ing that sleep. 1t may with propriety, there
fore, be said, that all men every night have a
critical perspiration, more perceptible in some,
and less SO in others, by which whatever use
less or pernicious particles have been imbibed
: by our bodies, or created in them, during the
day, are secreted and removed This daily
crisis, necessary to every man, is particularly
requisite for his support and the proper Pc
riod of it is when the fever has attained to its
highest degree, that is, the period when the
sun is in the nadir, consequently, midnight.
What do those, then, who disobey this voice
of Nature which calls for rest at the above
! : period, and who employ this fever, which
should be the means Of secreting and purifying
our juices, to enable them to increase their ac-
tivity and exertion By neglecting the criti-
; cal period, they destroy the whole crisis of so
much importance and though they 60 to bed
towards morning, cannot certainly obtain, on
that account, the full benefit of sleep, as the
critical period is past. They will never have
a perfect, but an imperfect crisis; and what
that means, is well known to physicians.
Their bodies also will never be completely
purified. How clearly is this proved BY the
infrmities, rheumatic pains, and swollen feet,
the unavoidable consequences of such lucu-
brations!
Besides, the eyes suffer more by this Gus
| tom; for one labors then, the whole Simmer
through with candle-light, which is not ncces-
sary for those who employ the morning.
And lastly, those who spend the night in
labor, and the morning in sleep, lose that
time which is the most beautiful and the best
fitted for labor. After every sleep we are
renovated in the properest sense of the word;
we are, in the morning, always taller than at
night we have then more pliability, powers,
, and juices in word, more Of the character
istics of youth, while at night, our bodies are
} drer and more exhausted, and the properties
Of old age then prevail. One, therefore, may
consider each day as sketch in miniature, of
I human life, in which the morning represents