New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-15
NERVOUS COMPLAINTS IwvpnIsr1
~ RELIEF FOR NERVO' 70 crIrErpEpc

same pI1ncipio I'll" she iests at ecors ,wbh
never felt wo and" they are treated lightly
by those who have never exner;encoa .h.
agonies they inflict. 1t should, however, be
borne IN d ind by the healthy and robust that
the nerv es, which are the natural channels ~
pleasu fable emotion, often become when their
fun' ions disordered or perverted, the sourccs
o. the most terrible physical and mental torture.
They are the immediate servants of the brain,
and whatever disastrously affects them reacts
upon that organ, and also affects, more or less,
the entire physique. Hypochondria and lunacy
are the 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 a
paralyzed limb the nerves of motion and sensa-
ton are dead; and that is the reason why the
exercise of the will cannot move it, and it is in
| sensible to pain.
| 1t il cruel, therefore, as well as intensely
stupid, to treat any nervous complaint trivial
or visionary.
Inauguration is the only specific for the physi-
| cal ills and mental phantasies which are In
Guided under the general head of nervous
| affections" There can be no cure until the
relaxed fibers, by means of which the brain
/ exercises dominion over the whole animal
economy, and through which it receives i'm
pressions of outward things, are restored to a
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, braeing ope-
ration will simultaneously remedy this triple
infection. If there is gloom, it will be banished;
| if there are mental hallucinatons, they will be-
dspelled; if there is nervous prostratioD, new
strength and vitality will be infused into the
whole motive machinery.
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 hygenic herbs and roots which pre-
vent it from fevering the blood; and hence it
does not produce mere temporary excitement,
to be followed by injurious reaction, but COM
municates q 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 accompani-
ments of nervous disease, dose of it taken
toward bedtime will tend to produce quet
and refreshing sumber. For palpitatiOn Of
heart, tremors Mysteries, fainting fits, general
restlessness, and the causeless 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 viii
be found the most agreeable and certain Of all
nervines and counter-irritants.
The constitutionally nervous may readily keep
their infrmity 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 vitalizing elixir prompt restorative.
No person of nervous temperament, who haa
not experienced its effects, can imagine the de-
lightful influence it exercises over individuals
so constituted.
The True Principle of Medcation.-In a mul-s
titude of counseors there is wisdom, we are1
told; but in a multitude of medical schoolsH
with which the world is afflicted there is a
large amount of absurdity. There may be-
and doubtless is, some merit in most of tha
to be infalbe; but the grains of truth they,
contain are so closely intermixed with dogma4
repugnant to reason and common sense that ii
is a difficult task to pick them out. The game.
in fact, is hardly worth the candle. Hydro
patty, homeopathy, and the movement cure,1
have each their enthusiastic advocates and be-
levers. The propagandsts 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 oneidea
men.
Preissnitz, the founder of the .hydropatlnc
school, insisted that all diseases which were
not organic might be washed away with cold
water. Nothing could be more simple than
this, if it were only true. But, alas some peo-
pie are not amphibious. DR.. Preissnitz was sue
cessful with some of his patients, but douched'
a large number TO destruction, and packed
a good many off to kingdom come. His disci-
pies of the present day have somewhat mod-
fled the violence of his treatment.
Homeopathy is not quite so Irrational. Hah-r
nemann was greater man than Preissnitz.l
Those who do not believe in nfntesimal med-.
cation may at least thank the homeopaths for
putting a wholesome !restrant upon allopatbio
practice The sick arel not bled, blistered,i
purged mercuralized narcotized, and otherwise
levitalized, as they were half century agoa
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.
If milk, which do not nauseate the stomach,
md can do no harm if they do no good.