The new health guide / edited by Sir William Arbuthnot Lane.

  • Lane, William Arbuthnot, 1856-1943.
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: The new health guide / edited by Sir William Arbuthnot Lane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    different and even opposite effects in different persons at different times. But it is to be remem- bered that any departure of this kind from the normal, whether it be too high or too low, is not due to the inherited peculiarities of aristocratic ancestors, working on highly strung constitutions, but a stupid, vulgar, and self-indulgent mode of life, in direct contravention of the simple laws of clean and wholesome living. Over-clothing, foetid atmospheres, over-feeding, over-indulgence in butcher’s meat, concentrated sweets, cocktails, and cigarettes, these are the things which are the true forerunners of evil. Now let us turn for a moment from this unlovely picture and consider some of the variations of blood-pressure in perfectly healthy people. Blood- pressure rises during sleep. The reason for this is that the blood is particularly viscid, that is to say much thicker, during sleep than it is during the waking hours. This is because it is only during sleep that food is delivered to the expectant tissues. You know that all food taken into the mouth must ultimately find its way into the blood. However uncompromisingly tough and solid your beefsteak may seem, you must realize it has to be liquefied before it can be utilized by the economy. When liquefied, it passes into the blood and can only be passed out of the blood again for use in the tissues while we are asleep. That is why loss of sleep (fauses such rapid emaciation. The I9I