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Appendix 4 - The Laws of Health

William A Alcott

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Why 82 – Late to bed (What 74) Staying up late at night causes fevers.

Page 32-168 - "Fever is more or less apparent …. in those .... who have set up late at night.” Page 87-450 -"the great and conclusive argument in favor of early retiring to rest in derived from consideration that the feverish state of the system which I have shown to exist a night, …. are best restored in those who get at least two or three hours of sound sleep before midnight."

Comment – If there is adequate sleep and the time of retiring fairly consistent there is no drop in the immune system.

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Why 83 – Time to Sleep 1 (What 74)

Sleep is better before midnight for the agitated nerves of the evenings.

Page 87-450 -"and the accompanying agitation and derangement of the nerves, are best restored in those who get at least two or three hours of sound sleep before midnight."

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Why 84 – Time to Sleep 2 (What 74)

“Early to bed and early to rise” people are warmer than late risers.

Page 344-1801 - "Those who retire early and rise early are warmer than those of the opposite habit,"

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Why 85 – Sleeping too Much (What 74)

We are sleeping too much because we eat and drink too much and are too hot.

Page 88-459 - "We eat and drink too much, use too much clothing by night and day, and rely too much on external heat; is it not to be expected, then, that we should incline to sleep too much?"

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What 75 – Porous Beds

Beds should have a free flow of air and electricity.

Page 78-409 - "All beds should be sufficiently porous to permit a proper circulation of the air; and of such general character, as to allow of a healthful play of the electric currents."

Comment – Some air porosity is required in bed coverings. Electricity does not come into it.

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What 76 – Feather Beds

G 35 C 23 J 45 K 49

Feather beds are no good for health.

 

Page 79-410 - "Hair, husks, straw, wood-shavings, grass, cotton, .... all seem to me greatly preferable to feathers."

Comment – As long as a bed supports the back and is not allergenic it does not matter what it is made from.

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Why 86 – Feathers Beds (What 76)

Feather beds heat the loins and stop the flow of electricity.

Page 79-411 - "It (springs) does not heat the body at the loins, like feathers; neither does it appear to prevent the free play of the electric affinities."

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Appendix 4 - The Laws of Health

 

William A Alcott

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What 77 – Short Nap

G 79

Having a short sleep during the day is a health risk.

Page 343-1792 - "Most of us ....fallen asleep ... on a chair or sofa, or it may have been on a bed. Half an hour or, an hour ..... afterwards, we have awakened cold. ...... I know of no way of accounting for this change, except by supposing that the mental activity has diminished." Comment – Short naps do not harm the health. The coldness is from physical inactivity or inadequate clothing and does not indicate disease.

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What 78 – Blankets

G 37

Blankets are better for health than doonas.

 

Page 79-413 - "For covering, Dutch blankets are greatly preferable ..... Comfortables are objectionable ... Worse still than comfortables, are feather beds for covering, which I have often seen used a portion of our foreign population. Worse still than comfortables, are feather beds or coverings,”

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What 79 – Pillows

It is best not to sleep on a pillow, but when used the head must be well on the pillow.

Page 81-424 - "When, however, a pillow is used at all, the head should lie fairly on it, and not just on its edge; …. The head ought never to be covered.”

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Why 87 – Pillow (What 79)

If the head is not well on a pillow the circulation of the neck in obstructed. Page 81-424 - "for the latter position obstructs the circulation in the neck."

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What 80 – Sleep Position

K 51

You should sleep on the side, a little bent, but not resting the legs on each other.

Page 81-424 - "The body should be slightly, but not too much, bent; and the limbs should rest on each other as little as possible."

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What 81 – Sleep on Right Side

K 52

We should sleep on the right side.

 

Page 81-420 - "the right side seems to be the most favorable position which can be taken.”

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Why 88 – Sleep Position (What 81) Sleeping on the right side aids digestion.

Page 81-420 – “It is especially adapted to favor late digestion, as it gives freedom to the motion of the stomach, while the work of Chymification is going on."

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Appendix 4 - The Laws of Health

 

William A Alcott

What 82 – Airing Clothes

J 92

Our clothes should be fully changed and aired at night and day.

Page 82-428 - "We think it is preferable to remove the whole, hang it up where it will be properly aired and ventilated, …. put on (at night), .... a night dress - a single garment - which has been airing all day,"

Page 368-1930 - "Let our day dress, when removed, be hung up, piece by piece, and let our night garment, in like manner, be hung up, and well ventilated during the day."

Comment – It would be better to wash the clothes.

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Why 89 – Airing Clothes (What 82) Excretions from the skin soil our clothes.

Page 82-428 - "Our clothing, by day, become loaded, to a greater or less extent, with foul emanations from our bodies, and when taken off at night is really filthy.”

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What 83– Cool at Night

J 46 K 50

We should sleep in a chilly bed.

 

Page 83-431 - "sleeping unnecessarily warm are much greater (evils), as I believe, than those of sleeping a little cool. It is no very serious injury to a person to wake once in two or three hours, with a slight sensation of chilliness."

Comment – There could be a health risk if not warm enough at night.

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What 84 – Double beds 1

Two people should not sleep in the same bed.

Page 84-434 - "In general, only one person should occupy a bed. This, I say, is the general law, to which, as to other general laws, there are a few exceptions, among which is the case of a mother and her new-born child.”

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Why 90 – Double Beds (What 84)

Sleeping together generates too much carbon-dioxide in the bed for health.

Page 84-436 -"In the best possible circumstances, more impure air is breathed in the case of double occupancy, whether that air is generated by respiration or by the skin, or both. The absorption of oxygen and the disengagement of carbonic acid gas is much more rapid, even by the skin, than most people are aware."

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Why 91 – Babies (What 84)

Babies can tolerate lower oxygen levels than adults.

Page 84-439 - "God in his providence has so ordered in than the tender infant will do very well with a little less than the due proportion of oxygen which is contained in atmospheric air."

Comment – This only applies to newborns.

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What 85 – Double Beds 2

People sleeping together should be the same age and in good health.

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William A Alcott

Page 84-438 - "They who sleep together - if sleeping together we must have - as an occasional exception to the general rule, should be in good and perfect health, and of the same or nearly the same age."

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What 86 – Heating Bedroom

The bedroom should not be heated.

Page 91-471 - "Fire in sleeping rooms are objectionable, in the first place, because they are unnecessary. Clothing is sufficient. ..... even in the coldest weather. .... When, however I speak of fires, I mean artificial heat, whether kept up by fire-places, stoves, steam, or furnaces."

Comment – This may be true in some countries, but he is talking of the winter in the New England region of the United States.

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Why 92 – Heating Bedroom (What 86)

Heating causes lowering of oxygen and raising of carbon-dioxide.

Page 91-472 - "They rob it of its oxygen or vital principles, and only make the poor return of giving out an abundance of carbonic acid gas, which is not wholly unfit for respiration, but in some respects poisonous."

Comment – It may occur with a poorly drawing fireplace, but not with the others types of heating.

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What 87 – Cool Sick Room

(W 4)

Temperature in a sick room should be as cold as possible.

Page 91-475 - "the sick may occasionally need artificial heat in their rooms, ..... it will, as I believe seldom be necessary." (476) - "Miss B. was consumptive ... I found her in a room whose temperature was at least ten or twelve degrees higher than it ought to have been; and sleeping at night at least 50 or 55 degrees Fahrenheit."

Page 92-479 - "the cooler the air of our sleeping rooms is, the better for the healthy. And I have known many protracted cases of chronic disease .... cured - by compelling the patient to keep his bed the greater part of the time, and breath an atmosphere cooled nearly or quite to the freezing point."

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Why 93 – Cool Room (What 87)

Cold rooms have more oxygen than warm rooms.

Page 91-473 - "In proportion as we raise the temperature of the atmosphere, we rarefy and thus expand it; and the quantity we ordinarily inhale at one time, viz., about a pint, will contain far less oxygen than before,"

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What 88 – Light Bedroom

No light should be left in the bedroom.

Page 92-480 - "many families adhere to the foolish custom of keeping up a light in the sleeping room,"

Comment - The light of a candle usually does not affect depth of sleep.

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