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Without protest, and without notice until too late, teachers often neglect their own health at home and at school,—recklessly overwork, undersleep, and undernourish; ruin their eyes, their digestion, and their nerves.

From Civics and Health by Allen, William H.

Poor condition, overwork, and undersleep, led to infrequency.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock

Youth needs overexertion to compensate for underexertion, to undersleep in order to offset oversleep at times.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley