New-York tribune., 1869-04-14
WEDNESDAY, APRIL Ia, 1869.
NERVOUS COMPLAINTS.

lures are by no means exempt from them. Oh
the same principle that "hc jests at scars VINO
never felt wound" they are treated lightly by
those who have never experienced the agonses
they inflict. 1t should, however, be borne in
miId by the healthy and robust that the nerves,
which are the natural channels of pleasurable
emotion, often become, when their functions are
disOrdered OF perverted, the sources OF the most
| terrible physical ard 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. 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
paralyzed limb the nerves of motion and SEN
sation are dead and that is the reason why
| the exercise of the will cannot move il, and it
is insensble to pain.
| 1t is cruel, therefore, as well as intensely
stupid to treat any nervous complaint as trivial
or visionary.
Inauguration is the only specific for the phys-
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
| exercises dominion over the whole 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 HosTETrER's
| object
speedily safely, invariably. If the senses are
perverted, the Imagination disordered, tire
physical powers depressed, its calming, regu-
lating, bracing operation will simultaneously
remedy this triple infction. If there is gloom
it will be banished il there are mental halln-
cinations, they will be dispelled; if there is
| 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-
| fled by hygienic herbs and roots, which pre-
vent it from fevering the blood; and hence 1T
does not produce a mere temporary excitement,
to be followed by injurious reaction, but COM
municates permanent potency to the entire
vital organization. Some of its herbal con-
stituents are slightly soporifc, so that in cases
where sleeplessness is one of the acc0mpani-
ments of nervous disease, dose OF it taken
toward bedtime will tend to produce quiet and
refreshing slumber For palpitation of heart,
tremors, Mysteries fainting fits, general rest
lessness. and the causeless fears and distress
ing fancies to which ladies arc especially sub
iect 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-irrtants
The consttutionally nervous may readily keep
their intirmty 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 vitalzing elixir prompt restorative. No
person of nervous temperament, who has not
experienced its effects, can imagine the delight
full influence it exercises individuals
constituted
THE TRUE PRINCIPLE OF MEDICA.
TION.
In multitude of counselOrs there is wisdom,
we are told but in the multitude of medical
schools with which the world is afflicted there
is a large amount of absurdity. There may be,
curative systems which their professors declare
to be infalible but the grains of truth they
contain are so closely intermixed with dogmas
repugnant to reason and common sense, that il
ia 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
H..
intelligent, highly educated men. But they are
not, as q rule persons of comprehensive minds
and liberal views. They are One-idea men.
Preissnitz, the founder of the hydropathic
school, insisted that all diseases which were
not organic might be washed away with cold
water. Nothing could be more simple than
this, IL is were only true But, alas! some
people are not amphibious. DR.. Preissnitz was
successful with some of his patients but
"douchedn 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 greater man than Preissntz.
Those who do not believe in infnitesmal medi-
cation may at least thank the homeopaths for
putting o wholesome restraint upon allopathic
practice. The sick are not bled, blistered,
purged, mercuralzed, narcotized, and otherwise
devtalized, as they were half century ago.
and for this, if for nothing else we ought to
be grateful to the practitioners who divide
posons into the smallest possible particles, and
administer them In little globules of sugar-of-
milk, which do not nauseate tho stomach, and
can DO no harm if they do no good.
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