New-York tribune., 1867-10-16
NERVOUS COMPLAlNTs.-Immediate 70.

! cate organization are most liable 20 this
| class of disorders; but stronger natures are
| by no means exempt from them. On the
same principle that "he jests at scars who
never felt wound" they are treated lightly by
! those who have never experienced the agonies
they infict 1t should, however, be borne in
/ mind by the healthy and robust that the nerves,
which are the natural channels of pleasurabe
enston, often become, when. their functions
are Gsordered or perverted the sources of the
most terrible physical and mental torture. They
arc the Immediate servants of the brain, and
whatever disastrOusly affects them reacts upon
that organ, and also affects, more or less, the
entire physique. HypOclondria and lunacy are
the results of false impressions conveyed to the
! brain by the nerves of seISation Gout, neu-
ralgia, tic-dOulomeN, palsy, paralysis hyste-
ria, and innumerable other ailhents whatever
| their remote causes may have ben, have their
immediate source in the nervous system, and, in
fact, all pain is felt through the nrves In
paralyzed limb the nerves of motion and sensa-
! ton are dead and that is the reason WY the
exercise of the will cannot move it, and 1t Is in
sensible to pain.
1t is cruel, therefore, as well as intensely
stupid, to treat any nervous complaint as trivial
or visionary.
InvigOration is the only specific for the physi-
cal ills and mental phantasies which are in
cluded under the general head of nervous
| affections" There can be no cure until the
relaxed fbers, by means of which the brain
| mi fba xVbOla animal
economy, and through which it receives i'm
pressions of outward things, are restored to
healthy condition. The stimulating, regulat-
ing and tonic properties of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters will accomplish this object speedily,
safely, invariably If the senses are perverted,
| the imagination disOrdered the physical powers
depressed, its calming, regulating bracing ope-
ration will simultaneously remedy this triple
| infictiOn If there is gloom, it will be banlshed;
| if there are mental hallucinations they Will be
dispelled; if there is nervous prostration, new
strength and vitality will be infused into the
whole motive machinery.
When the bodily energies are worn out by
anxiety and need a stimulant, this is the best
that can be taken. 1t is tempered and mOdi-
| fed by hygenic herbs and roots, which pre-
vent it from fevering the blood; and hence 1t
does not produce mere temporary excitement,
to be followed by injurious reaction, but com
municates permanent potency to the entire
vital organization. Some of its herbal constit-
uents are slightly sOpOrifc, so that in cases
| where sleeplesSness is one of the accOmpanl-
ments of nervous disease, dose of it taken
| towards bedtime will tend to produce quiet
and refreshing slumber. For palpitati0n OF
! heart tremOrs Mysteries, fainting fits, general
restlessness, and the causeess fears and dis
tressing fancies to which ladies are especially
! subject under certain morbid conditions Of mind
| and body peculiar to their SEX the Bitters will
be found the most agreeable and certain OF all
nervines and counter-iTitants.
The constitutionally nervous may readily keep
their infirmity in constant check by the daily
use of this healthful vegetable tonic; and those
who have shattered their nerves." as the
phrase is, either by imprudent indulgence or
undue physical or intellectual labor, will find
in this vitalizng elixir prompt restorative
| No person of nervous temperament, who has
not experienced its effects, can imagine the de-
lightful influence it exercises over individuals
so constituted
The True Principle of Medicaton.-ln null
ttude of counsellors there is wisdom, we are
told; but in a multitude of 8 medical schools
with which the world is afflicted there is a
large amount of absurdity. There may be,
and doubtless is, some merit in most of the
curative systems which their professors declare
to be infallible; but the grains of truth they
contain are so closely intermixed with dogmas
| repugnant to reason and common sense, that it
is a difficult task to pick them out. The game,
in fact is hardly worth the candle. Hydro
pathy, homeopathy, and the movement cure"
have each their enthusiastic advocates and be-
LEVERS The propagandists of these theories
are very much in earnest and many OF them
are intelligent, highly educated men. But they
are not, as a rule, persons of comprehensive
minds and liberal views. They are one-idea
men.
Preissnitz the founder of the hydropathio
school, insisted that all diseases which were
not organic might be washeda away with cold
water Nothing scould be more simple than
this, if it were only true. But alas some peo-
ple are not amphibious. DR.. PreissnitZ was sue
cessful with some of his patients, but "douched"
q large number to destruction, and packed
a good many off to kingdom come. His discl-
pies of the present day have somewhat modl-
fed the violence of his treatment.
Homeopathy is not quite so irrational. Hah-
nemann was a greater man than Preissneitz.
Those who do not believe in infinitesimal medi-
cation may at least thank the homGpaths for
putting a wholesome restraint upon allopathe
practice The sick are not bled, blstered,
purged, mercurialized, narcOtized, and otherwise
deyitalized, as they were half a century ago !;
and for this, if for nothing else, we ought to
be grateful to the practitioners who divide
poisons into the smallest possible particles and