POSITIONS IN SLEEP.

Kumara Times, Issue 3144, 1 December 1886, Page 4

POSITIONS IN SLEEP.

‘‘ I' is fjni'e interesting to go through a large h-spiial at night when most of the patients are sleeping, and note 'he vrriety of positions in which they let I ainiy s'eep knit up the ragged sleeve el cate,” said a noted physician the other day. "What is considered the most, healthful ' position T’ “Well, J should sry that a really healthy person does not keel) one position all night, lie rests first, on one side, then on tho ■‘l her, and probably sleeps on Ids hack and in modifications of these positions. Many pi) ysicians say it injures the liv' i to sleep constantly on the right dr ; is had for tin: heart to sleep on he irfi dde; and most people have the ■oghtoiare, or sleep too heavily, if they "st on i h.e hack. It has been conend i lie most poetical to sleep on *: e 11 • e, with one hand placed under the cheek; hut, recently it has come ihat such a position makes the face w'rii.kled ; ami so all pretty girls have cive iup the custom. Another pielty l osi mn is to throw tho aims careless!v eve tin- head, and many fa 1 milnrally > to ilm h ih;t ; I-i) r . if has been found liial - ■ ei-mg Vainly with the hands mm die im-d throws the lungs into an 'i ■ 11: o I■i a I position, and evidently weakens them. A fond mother, havdig a pretty daughter who has fallen imo this eiior, hinds the latu-r’s arms to her w dsi with pale bine silk elastic every evening ;U nl hopes in time to on e her of the dangerous habit.” “i-i he da s wlien I was a baby,” .'■•aid ail o d gent'eman, speaking on the tad'j .ct, •• my nnr-e never allowed me tie- tieedom ol my crib as children nowadays. 1 was put In sleep on a hard m,it ti ass without a pillow-, and my .-Imiiiu'O's and heels were fastened to a fc-r.p of *iiff linen, running the length (i the bed, so that ray back would bp flat hik! .s'raighf.” I'funm people have a curious habit of sleeping with their km-t a almost up to the chin, white others sl l etch themselves out full length. Loth positions are not c nisid' icd the best by physic a os. k ke a liedthy child of four or five, — 1 v -ie “he is sound asleep, study his aim tide, and you will (ind it the most "c 1 it- a 1 and comi-n table,” said ti mother Wi.o I: a;-' s-vtal chi'dren. “ They will ■ ; y on 'be h ick -and partly on •he a-. 'lie- hands will fall carelesslv : 1 oe soles, ami the whole hotly will mI; \. ! i emeraher,” she cmim o. v. lien a oil Id, that 1 had a had loom .-deeping curled up like a ball; ha was cured ot this habit by my h' di ’ *• V by, Sis, if yon were to o; • if. i.hat position, we never could get V'.i imo a decent collin; vou’d have to he Imiii'd in a cheese-box !’ he said. Ihe horror ot a cheese-box coffin 'dhaji i d all instant cure, A i the military school in Paris the s'tmet.os tttc ordeted to .sleep on the right side, ami at West Point the same rule is in toice.