The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-29
Nervous Debility

Is characterized by general anguor or weakness Of
the whole organism especially of the nervous system
obstructns and preventing the ordinary functions Of
nature; hence there is disordered stat of the
cretions; constipation, scanty and high coore6
urine, with an excess of earthly or limey sediment,
indicative Of waste of brain and nerve substance ire
quent ralptations of the heart loss of memory and
marked rresolutiGu of purpose and inability to carry
into action any well-detned business enterprise. OF
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 fotteriDg condition of the mental faculties,
dering an individual what is commonly called Whit
fe-minder, OF tickle minded man. There must of
necessity be il each individual different symptoms,
according his peculiar organization, habits pur-
manner of the manifestation of their nervous dis
turbances, constituting difference as marked as
their physical pecuharitleS dissmar 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 as to the
sicky, varied only in degree of quantity and dura-
ton in the of them in order to overcome the
disease. NERVOUS DEBILITY, or what is generally
regarded as SUCH is as protean typed in its pecuiar
ties as are the dreams of the shipwrecked mariner
who, in his struggles for safety lies down exhausted
ter moments sleep upon the wreck upon which he
floats with all the elements of destruction in mad
eommotion 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 there are paroxysms
or exacubations with extreme debility apparent in
everything; often conditions of hectic in ats stages
also all of the general symptoms enumerated, with a
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 bdo.1eh limbs,
with pains of shooting lancinating character. For
this condition explanations found in the fact that
as the vitality OF structure decreases by age, over
exertion or too frequent excitement at improper
times, its nervous sensiblity increases and if the
dimnution is the result of irritation, by disease
local injury, there is general decrease of vital
stamina or power; the least shock or irritation may
act secondary the inherent urinary
cause being some one or all of those already men
toned, In causation, however, there are a great
many others on the list, such as scrofua, malaria,
blood and wasting diseases of all kinds evers, sexual
excuses and the many forms of pelvic and all chronic
Diseases where there is great irrtation this being
rejected to the spinal marrow produces depression
OF that great nervous centre from whence corres-
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 Il is
may, with certainty, be cured by