Sleep / By Dr. W.W. Hall.

  • Hall, W. W. (William Whitty), 1810-1876.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sleep / By Dr. W.W. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    five, from this malady alone. While bad air causes these convulsions, immediate introduc- tion to a pure atmosphere gives instantaneous and efficient relief. The broad fact can not then be denied, that, as a general rule, and in the sense in question, the further people sleep apart, the more thej occupy separate rooms, the greater are their chances of life. A more critical examination into the nature of things will show, in a most conclusive manner, the reason of such results. Dr. Arnott reports that a canary hung up in a bed surrounded with closely-drawn curtains, and in which two persons slept, was found dead in the morning. This was because that, after the sleepers had breathed the air, there was not life enough left in it, not oxygen enough to feed a bird, and it perished. This shows in a general way, that when the breath comes out of the mouth, there is no substance in it, no nutriment, no life, and that we can no more live upon it than we could live upon food