The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams

by Benjamin Franklin and Applewood Books

Book Overview

Founding Father and all-around Renaissance man Benjamin Franklin considered and wrote about many topics. In this essay from 1786 on restful sleep, Franklin advises exercise before meals, moderate eating ("...full feeding, occasions nightmares and horrors inexpressible; we fall from precipices, are assaulted by wild beasts, murderers, and demons, and experience every variety of distress"), and fresh air in the sleep chamber, to avoid perspiring in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1429096047
• ISBN13: 9781429096041
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: American Roots
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 6.9"