The Portland daily press., 1875-05-12
Nervous Debility

Is 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 an excess of earthly limey sediment
indicative of waste of brain and nerve substance. ire
quent palptations of the heart loss of memory, and
marked resoution of purpose and inability to carry
into action any well-defned business enterprise OF
time. There is great sensitveness to Impressions,
though retained but short time with Pickering
and utteriDg condition of the mental faculties, rem
dering an individual what is commonly called Whit
fe-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 to shape the
manner of the manifestation of their nervous dis
turbances. constituting difference marked are
their physical pecuharites 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 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 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 such pr0tean typed in its peculiari-
ties as are the dreams Of the sbpwrecked mariner
who, in his struggles for safety lies down exhausted
for 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
Ills nature are longing for something solid upon
which he may find standing place.
In some cases of this disease there are paroxysms
everything; often conditions of hectic in all 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 shooting, lancinatiDg character For
this condition explanation found in the fact that
as the vitality of structure decreases by age,
exertion or too frequent excitement at improper
times its nervous sensibity increases; and if the
dminuton the result of irritation by disease
local injury, there is general decrease of vital
stamina or 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 great
many others on the list. such as scrofula. malaria
blood and wasting diseases of all kinds evers, sexual
and the many forms of pelvic and all chronic
diseases, where there is great r1iaton this being
reflected to the spinal marrow, produces depression
of that great nervous centre, from whence
ponding degree of nervous debility is distributed to
all parts of the SYSTEM a weakened condition fol-
lows, impeding, obstructing and paralyzng 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 it is,
may, with certainty, be cured by