The Lambertville press., 1860-03-07

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of general well-feeling for several DAYS
after, if, indeed, the man does not
return home actually sick or so near
to it as to be unfit for full attention to
his business for week afterwards. -
When man leaves home on business
it is always important that he should
have his wits about him that the
mind should he fresh and vigorous,
the spirits lively, huoyant and cheer
fil. No man can say that it is thus
with him after night on a railroad
or on the shelf of steamboat.
The first great receipt for sound,
connected and refreshing sleep is ply
sical exercise Toll is the, price of
sleep
We caution parents, particularly,
not to allow their children to be walked
up of mornings let nature wake them
up, she will not do it prematurely; but
have a care that they go to bed at an
early hour let it be earlier and earlier,
until it is found that they wake up
themselves in full time to dress for
breakfast. Being walked up early,
and allowed to engage in difficult o.
any studies late and just before retir-
ing, has given many a beautiful and
promising child brain fever, or deter
mined ordinary ailments to the pro-
ductiop of water on the brain.
RULES FOR GOING TO SLEEP.
|. Fix the thoughts, on getting
into bed, on some one thing, vast aud
simple, such as cloudless sky, or the
bonndless ocean, or the ceasless good
ness of the great father of all
2. 1t has been said that sleep is pro-
noted by lying with the head towards
the north, and not by any means to
the west, because Of certain electric
currents.
8. A writer recommends to COM
mence rolling the eye balls round the
circuit of the eye in the same direction,
until sleep comes.
4. Another AYERS that better plan
is to place the head in comfortable
position, shut the. mouth, and breathe
through the nestrils only, making an
effort to imagine that you see the
breath going out all the time.
5. We have known, on the failure
of all forms of anodnies, the gentle
continuous friction of the soles of the
feet with a soft warm hand, to be ad-
mirably successful.
6. When persons are prevented
from sleeping by slight hacking
cough, sleep is sometimes induced by
having two pieces of muslin, say six
inches by four, and three or four folds
thick, to be used alternately thus !:
have saucer at hand, half filed with
alcohol, dip one of the cloths into it,
then press it out, so as not to dribble,
and lay it across the chest, the upper
edge fthe csoth ranging With the col
lar bones, let it remain FIVE minutes.
then put on the other, alternating
thus (by the nurse) with as little mo-
tom or noise as possible, the patient
being on his back in the bed composed
for sleep
I. A French medical journal advises
on retiring to put five or six bits, of
sugar candy, as large as a hazlenut,
in the mouth averring that before they
are melted the desired effect will have
been produced, This may avail in a
case Of simple sleeplessness, not as the
result of any special disease. We
would nor advise such an expedient,
for persons have been known to lose
life by going to sleep with something
in the mouth If it is attempted at
all, the candy should be placed between
the cheeks and the guns, and the
mouth kept resolntely closed.