New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-12-02
NERVOUS COMPLAINTS IMMEDIATE
N RELIEF FOR NERVOUS SUFFERERS.-

To this CLASS Oh ulSOIuCISy Dub bIlphSNi A"'"iS'
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 agonles
they infict. 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 disOrdered or perverted, the sources OF 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
neuralgia, tic douloreux, palsy, paralysis, hys-
! terra. and innumerable other ailments, what
ever their remote causes may have been nave
their immediate source in the nervous system
and, in fact, all pain is felt through the nerves
In q paralyzed limb the nerves of motion and
sensation are dead and that is the reason why
the exercise of the will cannot move it, and 1t
Is 1nsensbe to pain.
1t is cruel, therefore, as well as intensely
stupid, to treat any nervous complaint as trivial
or visionary.
IMMIGRATION is the only specific for the physl-
cal ills and mental phantasies which are IN
cluded under the general head of nervous at
fections. There can be no cure until the re-
Lxed fibers, by means of which the brain
exercises dominion over the whole animal econ
omy, and through which it receives impressions
of outward things, are restored to a healthy
condition. The stimulating, regulating and
tonic prOperties of Hostetter's Stomach Bltters
4 nta oil
yariably. If the senses are perverted the I'm
| ngination disordered, the physical powers de-
pressed, its calming, regulating, bracinS opera
! ton will simultaneously remedy this triple
| inniction. If there is gloom, it will be ban
| ished; if there are mental Authorizations, they
will be dspelled; if there is nervous prostra-
ton, 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 modl-
fed by hygenic herbs and roots, which pre-
vent it from fcvering tho blood; and hence It
does not produce mere temporary excitement,
10 be followed by injurious reaction, but COM
municatcs a permanent poteTcy to the entire
vital organization. Some of its herbal constlt-
uents are slightly soporic, so that IN cases
where slecplessness is one of the accompani-
ments of nervous disease, dose of it taken
toward bed time will tend to produce quiet and
refreshing slumber. For palptation OF the
heart. tremors, Mysteries, fanting fits, general
restlessness, aud tho causeless fears and dis
trcssng fanccs TO which ladies are especially
subject under certain morbid conditions OF mlnd
and body peculiar to their sex, the Bltters VIII
| be found the most agreeable and certain OF all
ncrvines and counter-irritants.
Tho constitutionay nervous may readily
keep their nfrmity 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 a prompt restorative.
No person of nervous temperament, who has
not experienced the effects, can imagine the
delightful influence it exercises over individuals
so constituted.
| The True PRINCIPLE OF MEDICATION
In a multitude of counsclors there is wisdom,
we are told; but IN a 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 GU
ratyo systems, which their professors declare
10 be nfallible; but the grains Of truth they
contain are so closely intermixed with dOgmas
rcpugnant 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
patty, homeopathy, and the movement cure
have each their enthusiastic advocates and be-
levers. The propagandists of these theories
are very much i'll earnest, and many of them
are intelligent, highly educated men. But they
are not, rs a rule persons of comprehensive
minds and liberal ideas. They are oDe-idea
men.
Prcssniz, the founder of the hydropathic
school, insisted that all diseases which were not
organic might be washed away with cold wa
ter. Nothing could be more simple than this,
if il were only true. But alas some people
are not amphbous. DIR. Preissnitz was sue
cessfu with some of his patients, but "douched"
large number to destruction, and packed" a
good many off to kingdom come. His disciples
of the present day have somewhat modified the
violence of his treatment.
Homeopathy is not quite so irrational. Hahne-
mann was q greater man than Pressnitz. Those
who do not believe in intinitessimal medica-
ton, may at least thank the hOmeOpaths for
putting a wholesome restraint upon allOpathic
practice. The sick are not bled, blistered,
purged, mercurialized, narcotized, and other
wise devitalized, rs they were half q 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
| cou do no HARM if they do no good