Worcester daily spy., 1860-02-10
From HALLS journal of Uenlth.

PROTEST AGAINST EARLY RIsING.-One of
the very worst economies of time is that filched
from necessary sleep The wholesale but
blind commentator of early rising is as mis-
chlevous IN our practice as it is errant in thco-
ry. Early rising is crime against the noblest
part OF our physical nature, unless it is pre-
ceded by an early retiring. Multtudes of bus.
mess men in large cities count it saving of
time if they can make journey of hundred
or two miles at night by steamboat or railway
1t is a ruinOus mistake. 1t never fails TO be
followed by want Of general wel-teeing for
several days after, if, indeed, the man does not
return home actually sick, or so near it as to
be unfit for full attention to his business for
a week afterwards. When man leaves home
on business, it is always important that he
should have his wits about him !; that the mind
should be fresh and vigorous, the spirit lively,
buoyant and cheerful. No man can say that
tits thus with him after night on the railroad
or on the shelf of a steamboat
The first great recipe for sound, connected
and refreshing sleepis physical exercise. Toll
is the price OF sleep.
We caution parents, particularly, not to al
low 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 90 TO
bed at an early hour let it he earlier and ear
lier, until it is found that they wake up of
themselves i'll full time to dress for breakfast.
Being walked up early, and allowed to engage
Ill difficult, or any studies late and just before
retiring, has given many beautiful and prom.
Using child brain fever, Or determined ordina-
ry ailments to the production of wa,er on the
brain.
The following are methods of obtaining
sleep:
l. Fix the thoughts on getting into bed, on
some one thing, vast and simple such as a
cloudless sky Or the boundess ocean or the
ceaseess goodness OF the great Father OF us all
2 1t has been said that sleep is promoted
by lying with the head towards the north, and
not by any means to the west, because of GER
tain electric currents.
3. A writer recommends to commence roll
ing the eye-balls round the circuit OF the eve
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 nostrils
only, making an effort to imagine that you see
the breath going out all the time
b. We have known, on the failure of all forms
Of anodynes, the gentle, continuous friction of
the soles Of the feet with soft warm hand, to
be admirably successful.
b. When persons are prevented from sleep
ing by slight hacking cough. sleep is some.
times induced by having two pieces of muslin.
say SIX lnclleS Dy IOur, ana three or four folds
thick, to be used alternately thus have sau-
Ger at hand, haf filled with alcohol dip one of
the cloths into it. then press ii out so as not to
drlbble, and lay ii across the chest, the upper
edge of the cloth ranging with the collar-bones,
let it remain five minutes, then put on the
other, alternating thus (by the nurse) with as
little motion or noise as possible, the patient
being on his back in bed composed for sleep.
l. A French medical journal advises on re-
tiring to put five Or six bits of sugar candy, as
large as hazelnut, in the mouth, avcrring
that before they are melted the desired effect
will have been produced. This may avail in
case of simple sleeplessness, not as the result
of any special disease. We would not advise
such an expedient, for persons have been
known to lose life by going to sleep with some
thing in their mouth If it is attempted at all,
the candy should be placed between the cheeks
and the gums, and the mouth kept resolutely
closed.