Sleep

Hall, William W.

 New-York, W.W. Hall, 1861

1st edition. Bound in publisher's brown, blind stamped cloth.  Minor wear / fray to cloth spine head  / tail, cover extremities.  Internally very good. 314, [22], iv. pages. Yellow paper end sheets. Cordasco 60-0780 (Citing fourth edition).  William Whitty Hall (1810-1876) was a Kentucy-born physician and Presbyterian minister.  He ventured to the Republic of Texas, attended the first Texan presidential inauguration, and served as chaplain to both Houses of the Texas Congress. He worked to establish a church  Later he devoted himself to medicine in New York, establishing Hall's Journal of Health in 1854, and Hall's Medical Advisor in 1875. 

- DAB. In this book he deals with the epiodemiological effects of bad air on the health and gives practical tips for healthy living. An interesting excerpt, "But when it is known that in many instances a man and wife and infant sleep habitually in rooms which do not net a thousand cubic feet of space, it is no marvel that multitudes prematurely perish in cities; nor is it wonderful that infant children wilt away life flowers without water, and that five thousand of them die in the city of New-York alone, during the hundred days which include the middle of July of any year." 214 p.(Later editions have the title  "Sleep : or the Hygiene of the night")