Show midnight ferland haferland Hu in his treaties on sleep has has haa some curious as well as forcible ideas on the necessity of devoting midnight to rest and sleep he considers that the period of twenty four hours which f is 9 produced by the regular resolutions of the earth on its axis marks its influence most definitely on the physical economy of man diseases show this regular influence in their daily rise and fall settled regular fever exhibits a twenty four hours bours flux and reflux in the healthful state the there re is manifested the same regular influence and the more mor e hib bib igual our meals our hours of exercise or ern em and our hours of sleep the moie more more power is there in the system fo to resist disease inthe in the morning the puls pulse e is slow and th the tha nerves calmer and the mind and the body better fitted for labor As we advance towards i the evening of the day the pulse becomes a accelerated c cele rated and an almost feverish state is produced which in excitable persons becomes an absolute evening fever rest carries ox off this fever by its sleep and the refreshing opening of its pores which sleep produces in this nightly respiration there is an absolute Z crisis of this evening fever and d crisis is necessary to every one ne i for tor or it kt carries off whatever useless or pe peni niclous cious clous particles our oar bodies may have imbibed 1 1 1 this evening fever huberland Hu ferland thinks is hiot fiot entirely owing to the accession of new chyle to the system but to the departure of the sun and of the light the crisis of this fever to be most effective by its regularity ought to take place tt t midnight when the sun sua is 13 in its ita nadir and then the body becomes ref refreshed resheA for the early morning labor those who gho neglect n 1 this period either push this thi 3 diurnal cri crl crisis s is into the morning and thus undermine the importance im of its regularity or lose it entirely and land arise to their labors unree meshed by sleep their bodies will not have been purified I 1 h by A the nightly crisi sand the seeds of disease win wih have thus been planted nervous people eople are peculiarly subject to the fhe influence athis of this thib evening fever and think they cannot labor with its excitement hence their mental efforts are performed in the night alone the important impo tant time for the crisis of their nervous excitement passes over in wakefulness and no refreshing po cleanses the body or strengthens the nerves such peo will wear out soon unless they change their habits and seek rest when nature and the human constitution dictate t r these considerations ought to be demply studied and rel rea regarded added by ali all who ar in the ruinous ruinous hault habit of of turning bight into da day and af f changing the functions of each A failure of f chai chan tyng hea health will soon manifest it the truth 0 of hes bes eso 1 remarks |