The Care of the Body (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Care of the BodyE Spend the greater part Of our lives in Sleep it is the great restorer, it is therefore fitting that we should first consider Sleep.Sleep, to be refreshing, must be dreamless: on awaking there should be no memory of the hours of sleep, but only the pleasant consciousness Of life.Man waxes and wanes, his heart beats and rests, his brain works and must sleep. The proximate cause is fatigue, not day or night, nor the succession Of the tides, nor the in¿uence Of the moon. Simply fatigue. It is a resting stage. It may be traced through the higher animals and birds, to reptiles, insects, the crustacea, and even the bacilli.Sleep is a time for rebuilding those cells which have been engaged in the operations Of consciousness and which have been worn out during the hours Of activity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.