The Portland daily press., 1875-09-10
Nervous Debility

Is characterized by general languor weakness of
the whole organism especially of the nervous system
obstructng and preventing the ordinary functions of
nature hence there is disordered state of the Sc
urine. With am EXCESS Of esrhy or meV sedment
indicative of waste of brain and substance fre
quent paptations Of the heart loss of memory, and
marked rresoution of purpose and inability carry
into action any well-detned 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 futtering condition OF the mental faculties
dering an individual what is commonly called Whit
fe-minder, OF tickle minded man; There must of
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 as marked az are
their physical pecuharies dissimiar 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 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 protean typed in its pecuiar
ties as are the dreams of the shipwrecked mariner
who, in his struggles for safety, lies down exhausted
tor 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 a longing for a something solid upon
which he may find standing place.
In some cases of this disease there are parOxysms
CALCULATIONS, with extreme debility apparent in
everything often condtonsof hecticin all its 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'a bdonen or limbs
with pains of shooting lancinating character For
this condition an explanations found in the fact that
as the vitality of structure decreases by age,
exertion or too frequent excitement at improper
times, its nervous sensibility increases and if the
dmnuton 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 primary
cause being some one or all of those already men,
toned. In causation, however, there are 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 parayzing the
functional operations of every organ, muscular and
mental necessary to carry the essential duties,
business or pleasures of existence.
This condition Of the Individual distressing Il is,
may, with certainty, be cured by