The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-07-13
Nervous Debility

Is characterized by general languor weakness Of
the whole organism, especially of the nervous system
obstrueting and preventing the ordinary functions of
nature; hence, there is disordered state of the
cretions; constipation, scanty and high-colored
urine, with an excess OF earthly or imey sediment,
indicative of waste of brain and nerve substance fire.
quent papitatons OF the heart, loss of memory and
marked irresouion of purpose, and inability to carry
into action any welldefined business enterprise,
to fix the mind upon any one thing any length of
time. There is great constituencies to impressions,
though retained but short time, with Pickering
and 1uttering condition of the mental faculties
dering individual what is commonly called Whit
fe-minder, or tickle minded man. There must of
necessity be in each individual different symptoms,
according to his peculiar organization, habits, pur
suits and temperament, which all to shape the
manner of the manifestation of their nervous dis
turbances, constituting difference marked are
their physical pecularihes dissmiar 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 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
sickly varied only in degree of quantity and dura-
disease. NERVOUS DEBILITY, or what is generally
regarded such is prOtean typed in its peculari
ties as are the dreams of the shipwrecked mariner
who, in his struggles for safety lies down exhausted
for a moments 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 standing place.
In some cases of this disease are paroxysms
or CALCULATIONS, with extreme debility apparent in
everything; often condionsof hectic in aits stages
also all of the general symptoms enumerated, with
local manifestation 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, ancnatiDg character. For
this condition an explanations found in the fact that
the vitality of structure decreases by age over
exertion or too frequent excitement at improper
times its nervous sensbility 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
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cause being some one all of those already mem
toned. In causation, however, there are great
many others the list, such scrofula malaria,
blood and wasting diseases of all kinds feyers 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; weakened condition fol-
lows, impeding, obstructing and paralyzing the
functional operations of every organ muscular ana
Inent7tf iivoessar 20 the essential duties,
business pleasures of existence.
This condition of the individual, distressing as it is
may, with certainty, be cured by