Let all rooms be well lighted, well ventilated, moderately heated, and sparsely furnished with necessities. Shun draperies, have no window boxes, cut climbing plants ruthlessly away from the windows, and never obstruct chimneys.
Buy Muller's "My System", which gives a course of physical exercises without apparatus, which only take fifteen minutes a day. The patient must conscientiously
perform the exercises each morning, not for a week, nor for a month, but for an indefinite period, or throughout life.
Finally, remember that so few die a natural death from senile decay because so few live a natural life.
CHAPTER XVI
SLEEPLESSNESS
"O magic sleep! O comfortable bird
That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind