New-York tribune., 1867-07-24
NERVOUS COMPLAINTS.
IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR NERVOUS
SUFFERERS.

Persons OF delicate 0rganlZauon are moss Ia
BILE TO this class of disorders; but strongcs ma
lures 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 inflict. 1t should, however, be borne in
mind by the healthy and robust that the nerves,
which are the natural channels OF pleasurable
emotion often become, when their functions are
dis0rdered or perverted, the sources of the most
terrible physical and mental torture. They are
the immediate servants of the brain, and what
ever disastrously affects them reacts upon that
organ, and also affects, more or less, the entire
physique. HypochOndra and lunacy are tho
results of false Impressions conveyed TO the
brain by the nerves of sensation. Gout, neu-
ralgia, tic-douloureux, palsy, paralysis, hyste-
ria, and innumerable other ailments, whatever
their remote causes may have been have their
immediate source in the nervous system, and, in
fact, all pain is felt through the nerves. In
paralyzed limb the nerves of motion and SEN
sation are dead and that Us the reason why the
exercise of the will cannot move it, and it is in
sensible to pain.
1t is cruel, therefore, as well as instensely
stupid, to treat any nervous complaint as trivial
or visionary.
Invigoration is the only specific for the phys-
cal ills and mental phantasies which are m
cluded under the general head of nervous
affections There can be cure until the
relaxed fbers, by means of which the BRAN
exercises dominion over the whole animal
economy, and through which it receives fm5 .
pressions of outward things, are restored to
healthy condition. The stimulating, regulat- =.
ing, and tonic properties OF HosrETTERs
STOMACH BrTTERs will accomplish this object,
speedilv. safely, invariably. If the senses are
pcryerted. the imagination disordered, thes
physical powers depressed, its calming, regu-
lating. bracing operation will simultaneously ,
remedy this triple inflction. If there is gloon1,
il will be banslred; if there are mental hallu-
cinations they will be dispelled; if there if
nervous prostration, new strength and vitality
will be infused into the whole motive machin-.
cry. -
When the bodily energies are worn out by
anxiety and need stimulant, this is the best
that can be taken. 1t is tempered and modi-
fed by hygienc herbs and roots, which pre-
vent it from fevering the blood and hence 10,
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 sleeplesness is one of the aecompani-
ments of nervous disease, a dose of il taken
towards bedtime will tend to produce qniet and
refreshing slumber. For palptation of heart,
tremors Mysteries, fainting fits, general rest
lessness, and the causeless fears and Distress
ing faneies to which ladies are especially sub
ject under certain morbid conditions of mind
and body peculiar to their sex, the Bitters viii
be found the most agreeable and certain Of ALI
nervines and cOunter-iritants. Fr
The constitutiOnally nervous may readily keep
their nfrmity in constant check by the daily
use Of this healthful vegetable tOnici aud those
who have Shattered their nerves." as the
phrase is, either by imprudent indulgence or
undue physical or intellectual labor, viii ind in
this vitalizing elixir prompt restorative. No
person of nervous temperament, who has MOB,
experienced its effects, can imagine the delight
full influence it exercises over individuals so
constituted esf
THE TRUE PRINCIPLE OF MEDICA-.
TION. ,-srr r..f.I +. u ...esf
In a multitude of cOunsellors there is wisdem,
we are told but in the multitude Of !" medical
schools" with which the world is afflicted there
is large amount of absurdity. There may be,
and doubtless is, some merit in most of the
curative systems which their professors declare.
to be nfabe; but the grains of truth they
contain are so closely internixed with dogmas
repugnant to reason and common sense, that it.
is 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 minda
and liberal views. They are one-idea men.
Pressnitz, the founder of the hydropathic
school, insisted that all diseases which were
water Nothing could be more simple than
this if it were only true. But, alas some
people are not amphibieus. Dr. Preissnitz was
successful with some of his patients, but.
"douched" large number to destruction, and
"packed" good many off to kingdom come.
His disciples of the present day have some-
what modified the violence of his treatment.
Homeopathy is not quite so irrational. Hah-
nemann was q greater man than Preissnits.
Those who do not believe in infinitesmal medi-,
cation may at least thank the homGpaths for
putting wholesome restraint upon allopathic
practice. The sick are not bled, bhstered,
purged, mercurialized, narcotized, and otherwise
devitalized, as they were half 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
administer them in little globules of sugar
of-milk, which do not nauseate the stomach,
and can do no harm, if they do no good. -