The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-06
Nervous Debility

Is characterized by general languor or weakness Of
the whole organism especially Of the nervous SYSTEM
obstructng and preventing the ordinary functions Of
cretions; constipation, scanty and high-colOred
urine with excess of earthly or limey sediment,
indicative of waste of brain and substance,
queut palptations of the heart loss of memory, and
marked rresolution of purpose and inability to carry
into action any well-defned business enterprise,
to fix the mind upon any one thing any length of
time There is great sensitiveness to impressions,
though retained but short time, with Pickering
and futterng condition of the mental faculties, rem
derng an individual what is commonly called Whit
fle- ninder, or tickle minded man. There must Of
necessity be in each individual different symptoms,
according his peculiar organization, habits, pur
suits and temperament, which all to shape the
manner of the manifestation of their nervous dis
turbances. constituting difference as marked as are
their physical pecuhartles dssimilar 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 case where disease has its origin in physical
injury; the same remedies being alike applicable to
the weak to the strong; to the sturdy as to the
sickly 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 pecuar-
ties as are the dreams of the shipwrecked mariner
who in his struggles for safety, lies down exhausted
fer a moments sleep upon the wreck upon which he
floats, with all the elements of destruction in mad
cpmmotion around him, when the first instincts of
Ills nature longing for something solid upon
which he may find standing place.
In some cases of this disease there are paroxysms
everything; often condtionsof hectici in ats stages
also all of the general symptoms enumerated, with
local manifestation of it 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 shooting, ancinatiDg character. For
this condition an explanation found in the fact that,
as the vitality of structure decreases by age over
exertion or too frequent excitement at improper
times, its sensbility increases and if the
diminution is the result of irritation, by disease
local injury, there is general decrease of vital
stamina power; the least shock or irritation may
act as secondary cause, the inherent or 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 fevers sexual
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; a weakened condition fol-
lows, impeding, obstructing and paralyzing the
functional operations of every organ, muscular aud
mental necessary to carry on the essential duties,
business or pleasures of existence.
This condition OF the Individual distressing as it is,
may, with certainty, be cured by