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his hours for repose have been generally insufficient and 

 very irregular. 



Let us now enter more specifically into a consideration 

 of his irregularities of diet, and it may be here assumed, 

 for the purpose of illustrating our subject, that this busy 

 man has been accustomed to rise at six o'clock in the 

 morning, breakfast hurriedly on a cold potato, rush off to 

 business, keep himself at the boiling heat of excitement until 

 one P.M., when he may enter some eating-house, swallow 

 quickly some sauer-kraut and ice-cream, going through 

 about the same business performance in the afternoon as 

 in the morning, maintaining about the same temperature ; 

 but when six o'clock p.m. is reached you may possibly find 

 him sitting down at a well-provided table, bolting, as 

 rapidly as possible, his dinner, that he may be able to 

 spend at least six hours after this meal in studying a case 

 which he is expected to try in court the following day. I 

 have been informed, however, that he occasionally misses 

 a dinner, and that if search be made in his bedroom you 

 will find him there, lamenting his sad fate and complaining 

 loudly of a severe pain in his abdomen. The same gentle- 

 man further disregards the rules of health by an intem- 

 perate use of tobacco, — chewing as well as smoking, — and 

 frequently entering the dining-room while using the weed, 

 •which he only discards in time to begin the mastication of 

 food. Is it strange that this gentleman, having followed 

 such a life for about fifteen years, should now find 

 himself suffering with dyspepsia, insomnia, and hypochon- 

 driasis ? Is it not strange, on the contrary, that he is still 

 living? The practical question which now presents itself 



