The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-25
Nervous Debility

Is characterized by general languor or weakness Of
the whole organism, especially of the system
oDstructing and preventing the ordinary functions Of
naturei hence, there is disordered stat of the
cietlons; CONSTIPATION, scanty and high colored
urine, with an excess OF earthly OF mey sediment
indicative OF waste of brain and nerve substance ire
quent POPULATIONS OF the heart loss of memory, and
Marked lrresolut1on of purpose and inability to carry
INTO action any we-defined business enterprise OF
10 hx tne mlnd upon any one thing any length of
time There is great senstiveness to Impressions
though retained but short time, with Pickering
ana hoterDg condition of the mental faculties,
qerDg an individual what is commonly called Whit
he-minder, or tickle minded man. There must of
necessity be il, each individual different symptoms
according to his peculiar organization, habits, pur
suits and temperament, which all serve to shape the
manner OF the manifestation of their nervous dis
turbances. constituting difference marked as are
their physical pecuhartles dssiiiar and peculiar to
themselves. These differences in the manner and
form ct their manifestation. do not indicate sny
necessary difference to be followed in the treatment
OF any case where disease has its origin in physical
injury; the same remedies being alike applicable to
the weak as to the strong; to the sturdy to the
sckly varied only in degree of quantity and dura-
ton IN the use of them in order to overcome the
disease. NERVOUS DEBILITY, or what is generally
regarded as SUCH Is protean typed in its pecuiar
ties as are the dreams of the shipwrecked mariner
who, in his srug les for safety, lies down exhausted
tGr moments sleep upon the wreck uuon 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 lind standing place.
In some cases of this disease there are paroxysms
or exacubations. with extreme debility apparent in
everything often conditions of hectic in all its stages
also all of the general symptoms enumerated with a
local mani estatiOn of it more frequently apparent in
the facial nerves though it may be in any other part
OF the body, such as the thorax abdomen or limbs
with pains of a shooting, ancnating character. For
this condition explanations found in the fact that
as the vitality of structure decreases by age, over
exerton or too frequent excitement at improper
times, its nervous sensibility increases and if the
dimnution is the result of irritation, by disease or
local injury, there is general decrease of vital
stamina or power; the least shock irritation may
act as a secondary cause, the inherent or primary
cause being some one or all of those already mem
toned. In causation, however, there are great
many others on the list, such scrofula malaria
blood and wasting diseases of all kinds fevers 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 nervous CENTRE from whence cores
ponding degree of nervous debility is distributed to
all parts OF the system; weakened condition fol-
lows, impeding, obstructing and paralyzing the
functional operations of every organ. muscular and
mental, necessary to carry the essential duties
business pleasures of existence.
This condition OF the Individual distressing as 1t is
may, with certainty, be cured by