The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-06-14
Sleeping Together.

1t man were to see u quarter of an inch
Of worm put in his cup Of coffee, he would not
drink it, because he knows that the whole
cup would be impregna,ed If small
amount of virulent poison be introduced into
glass Of water, the drinking OF it might not
produce instant death, but that would not
prove that it was not hurtful only that there
was not enough of it to cause destructive
| result Immediately.
We sickcn at the thought Of taking the
breath Of another the moment it leaves the
mouth, but that the breath mingles with the
air about a bed in which two persons lay; and
| 1t Is rebreathed, but not the less offensive ia
| 1t in reality, no account of its dilution except
that it is not taken in its concentrated form,
but each breath makes it more concentra-
ted
One sleeper corrupts the atmosphere of his
room by his own breathing, but when two
persons are breathing at the same time,
twelve or fourteen times in each minute ex.
tracing all the nutriment from a gallon of
air, the deterioration must be rapid indeed,
especially in u small, close room. bird
cannot live without large supply of pure
air. caLary bird hung up in a curtained
bedstead, where two persons slept died before
morning.
Many infants are fourd dead in bed and it
is attributed to having been Overland by the
parents; but the idea that any person could
lie still for moment on baby, or anything
else of the same size, is absurd. Death was
caused by the want of pure air.
Besides, CARNATIONS, aerial and more or
less solid, are thrown out from every person
thrown out by a process of nature, because
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into another living body, it is justas abhorrent
as ii We took into our mouths the matter of a
sore or any other excretion.
The most destructive typhoid and putrid
fevers are known to arise directly from u
number OF persons living in the same small
room.
Those who can afford it should therefore
arrange to have each member of the family
sleep in separate bed If persons must
sleep in the same bed, they should be about
the same age, and in good health Ii the
health be much unequal both will suffer, but
the healthier one the most-the invalid suf
fering for want of entirely pure air
80 many cases are mentioned in standard
medical works where healthy, robust infants
and larger children have dwindled away and
died in few months from sleeping with
grand parents, or other old persons, that it is
useless to cite special instances in proof.
ltwould lie a constitutional and moral good
for married persons to sleep in adjoining
rooms, as general habit 1t would be
certain means of physical IMMIGRATION, and
of advantage in other directions, which will
readily occur to the reflective reader Kings
and queens and the highest personages Of
courts have separate apartments. 1t is the
bodily cmanations collecting and concentra-
ting under the same cover which are the
most destructive OF Lealth--more destructive
than the simple contamination Of an atmos-
phere breathed in common.-Halrs Journal
Of Health
Mise DIX, the distinguished phllanthro-
pist, 10 on visit to Springfield, Illinois,
and intends 70 inspect the state institutions
q Jaeksoaville.