The Portland daily press., 1875-04-10
Nervous Debility

Is characterized by general languor weakness Of
the whole organism. especially Of the nervous system
obstrucng and preventing the ordinary functions of
nature hence there is disordered state of the Sc
cretions; constipation, scanty and high cOlOred
urine with an excess of earthly limey sediment,
indicative of waste of brain and nerve substance, FREE
quent palptations of the heart loss of memory, and
marked rresolution of purpose and inability to carry
into action well-defned business enterprise, or
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 utteriDg condition of The mental faculties rem
dering individual what is commonly called Whit
Reminder, 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 serve to shape the
manner of the manifestation of their nervous dis
turbances, constituting difference marked are
their physical pecuartes dissimilar 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 it's origin in physical
injury; the same remedies being alike applicable to
the weak as to the strong to the sturdy as to the
sicky, 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, is prOean typed in its pecuari
ties as are the dreams of the shipwrecked 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
his nature a longing for something solid upon
which he may find standing place.
In some cases of this disease there paroxysms
or eXaeubations, with extreme debility apparent in
everything; often eondonsof hectic in all its stages
also all of the general symptoms enumerated with a
local manifestation of il 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 lancnatiDg character. For
this condition explanations found in the fact that
the vitality OF structure decreases by age, over
exertion or too frequent excitement at improper
times, its sensibility increases; and if the
dmnuton is the result of irritation, as by disease or
local injury, there is a general decrease of vital
stamina powers 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 the list, such scrofula, malaria,
blood and wasting diseases of all kinds, feyers 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 on the essential duties,
business pleasures of existence.
This condition OF the Individual distressing as it Is,
may, with certainty, be cured by