The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-07-24
Nervous Debility

Is characterized by general languor weakness Of
the whole organism especially of the system
obstructing 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 substance ire
Quent paptations of the heart, loss of memory and
marked rresoution of purpose and inability to carry
into action any well-defned 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 fiickerng
and utteriDg condition of the mental faculties rem
dering an individual what is commonly called a Whit
fe-miDder, or tickle minded man. There must of
necessity be in each individual different symptoms,
according to his peculiar organization, habits, pur-
manner of the manifestation of their nervous dis
turbances, constituting difference marked as are
their physical pecuharites 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 peculiar
ties as are the dreams of the shipwrecked mariner
who, in his struggles for safety lies down exhausted
fora moments sleep upon the wreck upon which he
hoats 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
VI OAdCuodIious Will oAIreIue ueDlllty apparent
everythng often conditonsof hectic in ailts stages;
also all of the general symptoms enumerated, with
local manifestation of it more frequently apparent in
the facial nerves. though # 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 an explanation found in the fact that
as the vitality of structure decreases by age over
exertion or too frequent excitement at improper
times its nervous sensibity increases; and if the
diminut the result of irritation as 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 or primary
cause being some one or all of those already mem
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; weakened condition fol-
lows, impeding, obstructing and paralyzing 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 as il is
may, with certainty, be cured by