The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-15
Nervous Debility

Is characterized by general anguor weakness Of
the whole organism. especially Of the system.
obstructing and preventing the ordinary functions OF
nature; hence, there is disordered stat of the
cretions; constipation, scanty and bigh- colOred
urine, with excess of earthly or limey sediment,
indicative of waste of brain and substance
quent papitations Of the heart loss Of memory and
marked rresolution Of purpose and inability to carry
into action any wel-defined business enterprise,
to fix the mind upon any one thing any length Of
time There is great sensitveness to Impressions,
though retained but short time with Pickering
and flatterpg condition Of the mental faculties
dering an individual what is commonly called q Whit
he- minder, or tickle-minded man. There must OF
necessity be in each individual different symptoms,
according to his peculiar organization, habits, pur
suits aud temperament, which all serve to shape the
manner of the manifestation Of their nervous dis
turbances. constituting difference as marked
their physical Iecuartles dissimar and peculiar to
themselves. These differences, in the manner and
form Of their manifestation, do not indicate any
necessary difference to be followed in the treatment
of any where disease has its origin in physical
injury; the same remedies being alike applicable to
the weak as to the strong; to the sturdy as to the
sckly, varied only in degree OF quantity and dura
tion in the use Of them in order to overcome the
disease. NERVOUS DEBILITY what is generally
regarded SUCH is protean typed in its peculiar
ties as are the dreams of the shipwrecked mariner
who, in his srug eles for safety lies down exhausted
fer moment sleep upon the wreck upon which he
floats, with all the elements OF destruction in mad
commOtion around him, when the first instincts Of
his nature are longing for something solid upon
which he may find a standing place.
In some cases of this disease there are paroxysms
exacubations, with extreme debility apparent in
everything; often conditions of hectic in all its stages;
also all of the general symptoms enumerated, with
local mani estation of it frequently apparent in
the facial nerves though it may be in any other part
of the body such the thorax, abdomen or limbs,
with pains of shooting lancinatiDg character. For
this condition explanation is found in the fact that
as the vitality Of structure decreases by age,
exertion or too frequent excitement at inpIoper
times, its nervous sensibility increases and If the
diminution is the result of irritation, by disease
local injury, there is general decrease Of vital
stamina or power; the least shock irritation may
act secondary cause, the inherent primary
cause being some one or all of those already men,
toned, In causation, however, there are a great
many others on the list. such scrofula, malaria,
blood and wasting diseases Of all kinds evers sexual
excuses and the many forms of pelvic and all chronic
Diseases where there is great irritation; this. being
reflected to the spinal marrow, produces depression
of that great centre. from whence cores
ponding degree Of nervous debility is distributed to
all parts OF the system weakened condition fol-
lows, impeding, obstructiDg and paralyzing the
functional operations Of every organ muscular and
mental, necessary to carry on the essential duties,
business pleasures of existence.
This condition of the individual distressing as 1t s
may, with certainty, be cured by