| Show poster of a sleeper it would teem seem on the first blush of tho the mitter matter that the posture for that is to favor sleep adeep must lie be generally tile the same as that voluntarily or instinctively assumed during sleep but a little consideration will make it tp Ep parent that this is not nol correct it maj may be granted that supposing a person to bo be sleeping lightly and uncomfortably the posture will be changed half balf consciously to one of comfort T H would be more correct to say bay that it is changed in ili the endeavor to avoid distress 8 or discomfort comfort d is but even tho fact that sleep is quieter in the new position will not suffice suf ficie to prove that this is a better one because the sleep way may me meanwhile anhilo an hilo have become deeper it is on the whole impossible to ascertain either cither by experience or observation which is the posture ture most conducive to sleep and attempts to lay down rules for the of bad sleepers are always arbitrary generally empirical and rarely of any ally practical ry value those who think anaemia of the cerebrum is the cause of sleep and those who think that though not the cause a diminution in the quantity of blood in tile vessels of the ence phialon is a necessary concomitant of sleep prefer ano recommend that the head should ba higher than the feet while those who adopt the opposite view and think passive congestion causes or promotes somnolence would have the feet raised and the head lowered the confounding stupor with sleep may and probably has something to do with these differences of opinion meanwhile a common sense view view of the subject would conclude that as there is evidently some BOMO change in the blood state when the brain falls sleep asleep a the led best plan must seem to be to place the body in such a position that the flow of blood through the vessels v is of the head and neck may bo be especially easy and free the way to acure this is to allow the head to II 11 lie in a posture and ox 0 a level that cannot offer any obstacle to the free return of blood through the veins of tile the neck neck and does not tend to make the blood flow specially in oay any particular direction but leaves leave nature at liberty to act as elie eho will london lancet I 1 ancee |
