Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-30
Sleep.

The following article, which is worthy OF
perusal and study, we take from Gums
New Family Physician, two hundredth ed
itipn.
s'Sleep is a necessary law Of the animal economy
and is the suppression ofaninal life. During it's
thu ance the creature i. under the influences Of o.
ganic life alone. Organic life applies to the functions
when sustain and no1rish the object; snimal lie
thought feeling. and notion and bring it into COM
munieiaion with the surrounding world The ai-
esive organs, tho kiiacss the heart and the lungs
the apparatus which carry into effect the organic
life of animals Those which manifest animal lie
the brain the organs of the senses and the vol
untaTy powers. Sleeps the intermediate state be
tween wekefuliness and death, waksfullness being
regarded the active state of all tbs animal and in
tstectual Functions, and death their total supension
Complete sleep is tempory in teliectuai death,
though not organic one-the heart and lungs per-
forming their Offices with their accustomed regular
ity, under the control of the voluntary npsc.es.
Thisis the sleep of health, and is full OF tranquility
snd reposc by hich recruits the wasted pow
ers, and restores our nervous energies " hen tais
IS Rplished sumber vanishes languroris succeed
cd by strength and all of the faculties, mental and
carporeal, recruited In this delightful reprse man
asiniiatos that strength in which Adam sprsng ttom
his Creators hand, fresh bnoyant, and vigorous,
as man ready to run his course his mind AMI E9dy
prepared for exertion.
Night is the time for sleep. Darkness and III
81 fence u nat court reposa as the light OF TN
newborn day invites us TO activity and labor In lac
there exists strange but certain sympathy between
the periods cfday and night, and the performance OF
particular functions daring these periods that is OF
The mere effect Of custom. AL nature wakes W it'll
the rising sun. The birds begin to sing; the bees
to fly about with the n.urmurous delight the flow
ers. which close under the embrace of darkness, I'M
fold themselves with renewed beauty to the light.
for plants sleep we'll animals; the cattle arise
to crop the aeWy herbsges and man goes fourth to
his labor until the evening. AT the close of the
day the nature of animals shcws the of all
this activity ana notiun. The songs of the birds,
after another, become husho till at length all
is SILENT aud nature Is left to sleep amid the falling
dews action is succeeded by lstessness energy by
Ian guor the desire for exertion by the inclination
for repo%e. and sleep, with her laden scepter holds
her dominion the world.
''Mauy facts be restsd which satisfactorily
prove the advantages of sleeping during the night
Instead of the day. An experiment made by
had disputed much which portion Of the twenty
fosr honrs was the test for marchin and fepoee
AS this very interesting sabject in m ilits-
ry point of view, to have it aseertaiued, they OBJ
tanned leave from the comm andiDg ofacers TO try
the experiment. One of them, although it was in
light and he arrived the ermina ion ia march
of six hundred miles without the loss either
or horse. The other who conceived 1t would be
less fatigung to march during the coal of the even
ing and part of the night than in the heat Of the
day, ut the end of the same march had lost great
prevailed among his troops This. experiment was
also made with our army in Mexico, to avoid the
intense heat of the day, and resulted in the same
manner"
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