The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-04-27
Nervous Debility

Is characterized by general languor weakness of
the whole organism especially of the system.
obstructng and preventing the ordinary functions of
cretions; constipation, scanty and high-eolored
urine, with an excess of earthly or limey sediment,
indicative of waste of brain and nerve substance tre
quent paptations of the heart loss of memory, and
marked rresoution of purpose and inability to carry
into action any well-defned business enterprise, or
to fix the mind upon any one thing any length OF
time. There is great sensitiveness to impressions,
though retained but short time, with a Pickering
and utteriDg condition of the mental faculties rem
dering an 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 as marked as are
their physical pecuaries dssmilar and peculiar to
themselves. These differences, in the manner and
form of their manifestation, do not indicate any
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 as to the
sckly, 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 pecuar
ties as are the dreams of the shipwrecked mariner
who, in his struggles for safety, lies down exhausted
fer a moments sleep upon the wreck upon which he
floats, with all the elements of destruction in mad
c2mmotion around him, when the first instincts of
lis nature are longing for something solid upon
which he may find a standing place.
In some cases of this disease there are parOxysms
CALCULATIONS, with extreme debility apparent in
everything; often conditionsof hectic in ALI 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 abdomen limbs,
with pains of shooting, ancinatiDg character. For
this condition explanation is found in the fact that,
the vitality of structure decreases by age over
exertion or too frequent excitement at improper
times, its sensbility increases; and if the
diminution is the result of irritation by disease
local injury, there is general decrease of vital
stamina or power; the least shock irritation may
act secondary cause, the inherent or primary
cause being some one or all of those already men,
toned. In causation however, there 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 CENTRE from whence a cores
p0nding 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 it is
may, with certainty, be cured by