Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-01-09

person, for instance, 40 DR.. Holmes has hap
pi,v sketched in one Of his humorous lyrics.
This person is driven to tho verge Of dis
traction by those common sights and sounds
which have no po oWer to lufie Well-conduct-
Cd, Eentlsmanly nerves. Life becomes q
burden 10 him, because Of
"Children with drums
Strapped round them BY the fond paternal ass
Peripatetc with a blade Of grass
Between their thumbs"
OF course. be accuses his nerves. Every
other man in the civilized world iS doing
the same injustice to those long Buferir G
and inalienable friends. Matthew Browne
did on act Of philanthropy, year or two
since, when he wrote "An Apology for the
Nerves" Il should be called defen ce,
rether than an apology, The nerves on that
occasion had no humiIiating confess ions to
make, but calm, logical evidence to show,
touching their right 10 deeper respect and
more elevated place in society II, he says,
there is without Nerve no Thought land 80
scientific men assure us, We can hardly
have too much OF the Nerves, unles Thought
itself is objected TO. The writer then pro-
eeeds ia laWyer-like manner to state the
claims of his clients. He observes that the
nerves are the objects Of systematic enmity
and depreciation among mankind at large {;
be exposes the ignorance and Vantonness OF
this The fat man, he justly complains, is
tolerated, loved, or, at the worst, only
laughed ct; but the nervous man, the man
With nerve, is not only laughed at, but dis
liked and derided. Yet the English nation,
according 10 Mr. Browne, would not trust
It's income with An obese man. Thus il is
With nervous men we trust our money, they
are in fact the men for our money, and it
is from them We expect all that makes
money worth having. In short, 1t is the
nervous man who thinks, invents, and
builds, writes books, fights battles, and, by
free exercise Of his powers, creates those
comforts and blessings which are grumb-
llingly enjoyed by the man without nerve.
And Get these admirable nerves which do
everything worth doing are held response
BILE for half the unpleasantness Of life. Our
ability is considered in the light OF dis
ease, and lamented and doctored-literally
doctored
That the majority Of people regard theii
nerves as things to be tanned and held in
control, Is made manifest by an entertaining
circular Of DR.. Turner, in which are found
SEVERAL ioICerS ITUu BchJlomoh "ou'AnO"h
in the medical, legal and other professions
acknowledging that they have successfully
combatted with their nerves, and speaking
Of Dr. Turner's Universal Neuralgia Pill
with the same srdSr that military mar
would discuss newly invented conica
steel shot, or peculiarly ef6cacious mimic
ball Perhaps, indeed, these gentlemen wer
over burdened with nerves; for 1t is posi-
BILE to have too much Of good thing. TOT
much thought, strictly speaking too mucl
nerve, has, before now, led to tho saddest
results DR.. Turner's essay furnishes III
with some notable examples: "SWift dying
in moody mania;" "Sir Isaac Newton will
intellect temporarily Shattsred;" "JOhnsor
oppressed by thick-cOming fancies " Blu
then these are exceptiSnAl cases, and ther'
is no saying what the result might hav'
been, could they have availed themselves O.
the recent discoveries in pharmacology. IL
the mean while no reasonable person vii
look upon Mr.. Brownies "Apolody for tn
Nerves" as either untimely or iDjudicious