and makes an amusing calculation of the saving that might be made in the city of Paris alone, by using the sunshine instead of candles. This saving he estimates at 96,000,000 of livres, or 4,000,000 sterling. This is mentioned in a satirical vein, but probably there is a great deal of truth in the statement. Indeed, if people were to go sooner to bed, and get up earlier, it is inconceivable what sums might be saved; but, according to the absurd custom of polished society, day is, in a great measure converted into night, and the order of things reversed in a manner at once capricious and hurtful. To conclude. The same law which regulates our desire for food, also governs sleep. As we indulge in sleep to moderation or excess, it becomes a blessing or a curse—in the one case recruiting the energies of nature, and diffusing vigour alike over the mind and frame: in the other, debasing the character of man, stupifying his intellect, enfeebling his body, and rendering him useless alike to others and to himself. The glutton, the drunkard, and the sloven bear the strictest affinity to each themselves. other, both in the violation of nature's laws, and in the consequences thence entailed upon What in moderation is harmless or beneficial, in excess is a curse; and sleep, carried to the latter extreme, may be pronounced an act of intemperance almost as much as excessive eating or drinking. FUNDACIÓN MADRID Abercrombie, Dr, case related by, of the verifi Aristotle, his account of the sleep of fishes, Armitage, Elizabeth, a great sleeper, 203 10 244 43 Awaking, phenomena of, Bacon the sculptor, anecdote of, 339 Bell, Sir Charles, on the eneuresis infantum, Blacklock, Dr, the peculiarity of his dreams, Blake the painter, extraordinary case of, Blindness, dreams modified by, 104 40 209 254 61 211 Blood, arterial, acquires the venous character Bourdeaux, Archbishop of, case of somnam- Bostock, Dr, his case, Brain, effects of its size in reference to sleep, determination of blood to the, induces its texture in infancy, Buffon denies any affinity between hybernation and sleep, to produce dreams at will, . Byron, Lord, scene described by, in his Cabanis, fact concerning, Cæsar, Julius, the apparition of, which ap- Caligula tormented by frightful dreams, Carmichael, Mr, supposes assimilation in the -his explanation of the process 20 43 30 • 261 Chapelain, M., operation performed by, upon PAGE directions, regarding the sleep of, Cold produces sleep —, sleep from, 204 53 40 Coleridge, Mr, account by, of the origin of Colquhoun, Mr, the Parisian report translated Combe, Mr, cases mentioned by, his remarks on Concentrativeness, Combe, Dr, case of spectral illusion by, Concentrativeness, effect of a large developement of, in inducing abstraction, Condorcet, fact concerning, Conolly, Dr, case related by, 76 96, 147 331 808 331 79 290 254 17 195 97 66 Cook, Captain, case extracted from his "Voy- Cullen, his remark on the effect of monotony, Cumin, Dr, case related by, Currie, Dr, his remarks on the visions of hypochondria, Darwin, Dr, fact noticed by, 92 vent attacks of night-mare, case of sleep-talking described by, 180 216 |