The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-11-09

/ deur, and epoch of his greatest lustre.
The other Napoleon succeeded the first,
and the complement of the aberra-
tions of his pride was his marriage
with Maria Louisa"
Sleep.
/ FoR the real cause of sleep, learned
physicians and wise philosophers have
been unable to account. When night,
with its silence and darkness, comes on,
the wearied mind and muscles volun-
tarily exclude the operation of the SEN
ses-the fibres Of the brain collapse to
throw off superabundance of blood,
and we sink into repose, more or less
refreshing, depending on other infuen-
ces to which we are subjected in sleep.
The senses locked in healthful SUM
Der, the mind hears nothing, sees moth
| ing, and the brain and whole system is
refreshed thereby The mind and the
muscles are at rest; but the heart con-
tinues to propel the blood through the
system-digestion, insensible perspira-
tion, and respiration continne, and the
senses awaken to renewed inauguration
and activity. But do all experience
this vigor from sleep? No; fof're-
freshing sleep depends on many infu-
ences
As respiration continues in a Sleep
ing as well as wakeful state, we must
have pare air to breathe by night to
render sleep invigorating. This many
forget, and shut themselves in close
apartment, without any mode of venti-
lation. Their rooms, many times, are
not aired through the day, and some
times, in addition to the impurity of
air breathed over and over again, they
are filed with the smoke of pipe or
cigar.
Sleep, in such poisonous air, is dis
turbed and restless; the breathing hur-
ried, oppressive, and languid the
heart f1utters the mind and brain dis
turbed and dull the mouth, throat,
tongue, lips, and stomach experience a
disagreeable sensation, the individual
not thinking all this while what was
the cause. Every effect has cause,
and this cause needs to be removed to
remove the effect.
Healthful respiration, either in a
sleeping or a wakeful state, cannot lol,g
be performed by any breathing animal
without pure air. For this was man
and all breathing animals furnished
with lungs and air cells. At every re-
SEPARATION air is inspired and respired.
The inspired air should contain its nat
ural quantity of oxygen, to purify the
blood as it circulates through the lungs.
All apartments that have not means
for constantly admitting outdoor air
are filed with respired air, or air that
has been rejected by the lungs as unfit
| to nourish the system.
II, for want of pure air, this is breath
ed ever again, it causes many injurious
symptoms. This important fact can
not be too forcibly impressed upon the
minds Of all. All sleeping apartments
need to be as large. high, dry and airy
as possible. When air is admitted into
them from windows, they ought to be
at the foot of the bed, or nearly so.
/ In all cases the air not to be admit
ted at the head Of the bed. In such a
case person might take fatal cold;
for all people will take cold easier to
have current Of air rushing upon their
heads, shoulders, or backs than in any
other way. When from feebleness or
inelemency the air cannot be admitted
directly into the sleeper's room, it
should be admitted into an adjoining
] room, and the door of the sleeper's
apartments remain open.
All excitement, care, sorrow, &C.. /,
should be banished from the mind be-
fore retiring. The evening hours
should be spent in the quiet and seclu-
sion of home, as far as possible, and
ca. y retiring the established rule. Not
many win deny, that Merry evening
parties make sorry morning hours -"
Trimming the midnight lamp /" is de-
structive of life, health, and happiness.
At least one-third of the twenty -four
| hours ought to be spent in refreshing
sleep to secure health of mind and body
/ Children and youth, that have not at
tanned the full growth of the system,
| feeble persons, aud those whose brains
are actively exercised, require more
| sleep than to secure health.
+ Sleep diminishes the rapid motion
of the blood, assists in the cure Of dis
case, and promotes the growth Of the
system. The body receives nourish-
ment dnring sleep, throws off acrid
matter by insensible perspiration, and
increases in growth and strength more
! than when awake
i How often do people quote Bona
parte, as an example of late retiring
and early rising, without thinking that
Bonaparte had not common constitn-
4 ton nor common mind. And who