Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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However much experimenters may differ as to the causes of sleep, and the amount necessary for men under varying circumstances, experience has shown that most of us are in better health when we have a sufficient quantity at regular times. The adaptability of the human system is very great, and is shown very markedly in the matter of sleep. The insane can sustain long continued conditions of sleeplessness. Every organ and tissue in the body must have rest, or they soon become worn out. The heart must make use of the intervals between beats to obtain necessary repose. The cause...
...very seldom that a physician is thoroughly satisfied with the examination he has made. But let us suppose our athlete has a sound heart. Let him be well fed with the proper kind of food, and be supplied with the proper kind of air; let his sleep be enough in quantity, and taken at the right time, his habits such as are conducive to health, especially as regards the use of tobacco and alcohol. These things being so, what is the effect of exercise on the heart? As the heart affects, and is affected by the whole body, it cannot...
...bearing class, such as meats, and the non-nitrogenous such as fats, starch, sugar, etc. A brain worker requires more fats, and a muscle worker more nitrogenous foods. Over brain exercise sometimes produces insensibility to hunger, and students, after light suppers and long night study, find themselves unable to sleep, although not conscious of lack of food. A light lunch is often a cure for this condition, and is to be advised after prolonged mental effort. The average man requires the food elements in about the proportion of 4 oz. nitrogenous, 3 oz. fats, and 13 oz. sugar, starch...
Nervous System. - Anatomy and physiology. Influence over whole body. Increase of diseases of nervous system in modern life. Mental overwork. Diseases of nervous systems due to neglect of personal hygiene. Sleep and its derangements, worry, emotions, passions...
...large part in determining what degree of health he shall have, for men resist the influences to which they are exposed with very different results. Another subject of the very greatest importance to health is food. Exercise for persons of sedentary habits is of prime importance. Cleanliness and sleep are too well known as requirements of good health to need much comment. We want to make ourselves sound in wind and limb, in heart and brain. We are all glad to be freed from aches or pains; how much better if we avoid some portion of them. The desire...