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duce weariness of the legs. To prevent tiiis, they may 

 occasionally sit down. Neither is it advisable to con- 

 tinue so long at study or posting accounts, as to occasion 

 confusion of thought, or weariness of body. A brisk 

 walk of a mile or two will be found useful in such cases. 



Sitting up late in the evening, or sitting where there is 

 much light in hot weather, is also, not a little injurious. 

 Many persons suppose, that the ill effects of sitting up 

 late, are owing merely to our habits. This is a mistaken 

 opinion. The truth is, after the fatigues of the day which 

 most industrious people in this country undergo, wheth- 

 er they rise early or late, the wearied body needs speechj 

 j'€st, and one hour's resistance of sleep at this period, will 

 often be severely felt in its effects the next day. Dys- 

 peptic people are very apt to sleep under too many bed- 

 clothes. So many as to occasion sweating, or uncomfort- 

 able warmth, will be injurious. Eight hours sleep is as 

 much as is useful. The head should be kept cool and 

 unencumbered with a night-cap. Watching with sick 

 people through the night, or sitting up all night for any 

 other purpose, is extremely injurious, and will in many 

 instances produce a degree of acidity in the stomach, and 

 general debility, which will not be overcome in a week. 

 Having fires in our lodging rooms will expose us to take 

 cold more readily. I hope that I shall not be censured, 

 for dwelling so long, and with so much minuteness, on 

 this subject, when it is remembered that not only the 

 comfort of the diseased, but the vigour of their mental 

 faculties, and their tempers and dispositions, are intimate- 

 ly connected with the state of the stomach. 



III. We come now to the last thing proposed, viz. to 

 remove that state of the stomach in which the disease 

 consists ; or in other words, to effectuate a radical cure. 



This is to be done by remedies which have an immedi- 

 ate operation upon the stomach, and by those which op- 

 erate sympatlietically, by strengthening the whole sys- 

 tem ; or in other words, by exercise. 



When the stomach labours under a paroxysm of de- 

 bility, the mineral acids will in some instances be found 

 highly efficacious, in restoring its tone. If taken in large 

 quantities there is, however, danger to be apprehended 



