How many hours of sleep are required?

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Hours of Sleep

Q. How many hours of sleep are required?

A. A very few persons may be able to get along fairly well with six hours, but eight hours of complete rest in bed are required by the average person. Many persons who have a pre­disposition to neurasthenia require an hour or two more. Few persons are able to work con­tinuously for any length of time with less than six hours sleep. The stories told of persons who habitually require but four hours sleep are not authentic.

Napoleon slept but four hours in his bed but took naps in the day time. The Duke of Wellington slept four hours at night but often fell asleep at the dinner table and sometimes when riding. Mr. Edison advocates four hours sleep as sufficient, but in addition to four hours in bed often takes naps in the day-time on a bed in his laboratory. His intimates say that he sleeps as much as most people do, which is six to eight hours in twenty-four.

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