The Best Position For Sleep

E. D. Babbitt, M. D., in his new book, the " Health Guide," thus gives his views on the best position for the body during the hours cf sleep : Baron Reichenbach, by a large number of experimenta with sensitive and feeble persons, found that they would be thrown into a very uncomfortable or spasmodia condition when they lay with their heads to the Routh, and still worso when their heads were to the west; but that when he turned them with their heads to the north and their feet to the south, they were quiet and comfortabie. This harmonizes with the idea of a magnetic earth current going from north to south, or at least in the direction of the needie, thus throwing the warm principie toward the feet when the head points northward, while the distress occasioned by lying with the head to the West may be accounted for on the supposition of an electric ourrent moving from west to east, at right angles with the magnetic current, thus throwing the cool element to the feet, just where it should not be. This last direction must be particularly injurious to delicate ladies, in whom the electrical element already predominates too much, especially at the extremities ; and these were the class of persons with wbom Reichenbach experiinented. I would recommend the northeast as a still better direction for the head than the north, as it throws both cool currents toward the heacT and the warm currents toward the foet. The observance of these rules of position would save a vast amount of headache, neuralgia and distress of the brain and nervous system generally. I lay down these rules, not as a more theory, but a fact established by my own experience as well as that of others, and it is high time our physicians begun to look into these important hoalth laws, which, if habitually violated, wrill imperceptibly undermine raany a ielioate constitution.