The Portland daily press., 1875-05-01
Nervous Debility

Is characterized by general languor weakness Of
the whole organism. especially of the system
obstrucng 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 limey sediment,
Indicative of waste of brain and nerve substance fire.
ouent palpitations of the heart loss of memory and
marked resolution of purpose and inability to carry
into action any well-defned business enterprise
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 utterDg condition of The mental faculties,
dering an individual what is commonly called Whit
fe-minder, tickle minded man. There must of
necessity be in each individual different symptoms,
according to his peculiar ORGANIZATION, habits pnr-
manner of the manifestation of their nervous dis
turbances. constituting difference as marked
their physical peculiarites 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 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 use Of them in order to overcome the
disease. NERVOUS DEBILITY, or what is generally
regarded such as protean typed in its pecuiari
ties as are the dreams of the shipwrecked mariner
who, in his struggles for safety lies down exhausted
fer moments sleep upon the wreck upon which he
floats with all the elements of destruction in mad
cQmmotion around him, when the first instincts of
lis 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 conditonsof hectic in allts stages;
also all of the general symptoms enumerated, with
local manifestation of it frequently apparent in
the facial nerves. though it may be in any other part
of the body such as the thorax, abdomen limbs,
with pains of shooting lancinatiDg character. For
this condition explanations found in the fact that
the vitality of structure decreases by age,
exertion or too frequent excitement at improper
times, its nervous sensiblty increases; and if the
dmnuon 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 as secondary cause, the inherent primary
cause being some one all of those already men,
toned. In causaton, however, there are great
many others on the list. such 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 irrtation this being
reflected to the spinal marrow, produces depression
of that great centre, from whence cores
ponding degree of nervous debility is distributed to
all parts of the SYSTEM weakened condition fol-
lows, impeding, obstructing and paralyzng the
functional operations of every organ, muscular and
mental, necessary carry the essential duties,
business pleasures of existence.
This condition OF the Individual distressing as it is,
may, with certainty, be cured by