Asthma and Snoring Elevating the upper body benefits patients with Asthma. On a horizontal mattress it restricts air tubes and increases the difficulty of moving air to vital major organs. The FDA has said that Adjustable Beds aid in the treatment of a number of medical afflictions and illnesses. Snoring is not a problem, except for your partner. Normally adjusting the upper part of the bed to a higher position eliminates or reduces snoring.
Aristotle and Ptolemy. There are few instances of philosophers that have had such a deep influence as Aristotle, or of cosmologists whose theories have endured as long as Ptolemy's. Aristotle's influence is enormous ranging form the sciences to logic.
1 The idea that all such knowledge ultimately must come from observation is called empiricism. 2  Bacon suggested that by making repeated, careful observations of physical phenomena, eventually one would be able to perceive the regularities -- what leads to what, under what conditions.