The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-12-27
Nervous Diseases. = Headache,
Neuralgia, Nervousness.

There are nerves running from the brain to every
portion OF the body, thus estabishng-so to speak
telegraphic communication between the brain and
the whole body. AS result of this, if any organ OF
the body becomes diseased, the nerves passing from
the brain to that organ become involved in the dis
ease, so that we have more or less symptoms
with almost every form of bodily sickness For in
stance if the lungs become diseased, all the nerves
which connect the lungs with the brain become effect
ed and these sending their complaints up the brain
produce headache and nervousness So too, diseases
of the heart, stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys, any
important organ of the body will effect the brain and
the nervous system. This is particularly true of the
stomach, owing to the great number of nerves pas
sing from the brain to this organ. You rarely see a
dyspepic who is not nervous and irritable, and
troubled with bad feelings in the head. Many times
when it is said such person has bad disposition, i
it ought to be said he has bad dyspepsia.
Another frequent cause Of nervousness is impOver-
ished blood. The brain receives one fifth of all the
blood of the body, which is nearly ten times its natur
al share therefore when the blood is impoverished or
diseased the brain is almost the first organ to suffer
Hence we find that pale boodless persons always
nervous. The least excitement makes their heart
papitatc and sets them all in trcmble. This is the
class of persons also who are always troubled with
neuralgia The nervous system is not more than
half nourshcd by the poor blood, it sends out its
complaint in the form Of sharp dartng pains III the
the cure of nervousness produced in any OF the ways
we have mentioned, the treatment must be directed to
the real seat of the disease. If it is impoverished
blood we must treat the blood, if it is diseased
liver, must treat the liver, and when We have re-
stored the health of the diseased part the nervous
| symptoms will disappear of themselves.
From what We have said you see that we consider
nervous people diseased people shattered, broken
down, nervous system docs not exist without some
adequate cause, and usually some cause that can be
ascertaned and often removed. And yet how often
do persons, especially women who have been
nvalids for years. dragging out wretched existence
perhaps confined to the house and bed ridden, and
YOU ask, What is the matter!' and the neighbors
say, o! Nothing, only she is nervous and hystcic-
al" Nothng Is it it nothing which changes life OF
energy activity and cheer funess into life of inac'-
ivity and sadness Is it nothing which causes a
woman in the prime of life and bloom of health to
orake society," friends and happiness for the cheer
less walls of sick chamber? II there is any class
who are truly SICK if there is any class who IN ore
than another demands our sympathy and our aid, it
is the confirmed invalid, whose mind well as body
+ has been weakened by suffering and disease.
Nervous diseases are much more common among
women than men, and we believe that the great
for this is that women a class not as we'll
employed men. Not that women more idle
than men, but much of their work is of trivial
character which affords adequate exercise of mind
body The great avenues Of thought aud labor are
reserved for tho so-called lords Of creation while
women are expected to concentrate the whole weight
of their minds energy and soul upon such topics as
making tatting, trimming dresses, fixing chignons
and talking gossip The young man soon as he
completes his education selects his profession or EN-
ployment, and enters ut once upon his life work
while the young lady enters upon the business OF
catching beaux and entrapping husband. In the
proportion that women are elevated above the posi-
ton of parlor ornaments and the sphere of their
labor broadened and deepened, shall we see among
them less of nervous diseases and more of health
beauty and intelligence.