The Hickman courier., 1877-06-01
BsAIN AND NERFEs.
rn.,.. xour..nmen. il, Health a.a Disease
tnv,cr no NERVOUS PEOPLE.

Their. No,sr;shment in Health assd Disease.
ADVICE TO NERVOUS PEOPLE.
Now. from whatever cause or combina-
ton of causes nervousness has been pro-
duce if happiness and health are to be
restored, the causes must be repaired.
For in proportion to the weakness OF
mans system and the enfeeblement of
his nerves, will be the liability OF his
falling victim to other and more fatal
maladies; and thus it is that every day
we find such diseases as bronchitis, con-
sumption, Bright's disease, brain disease
and insanity following at the heels OF
nervousness. The indications for treat
ment are fouriold. First, we must re-
move the cause, restore the tone of the
heart, improve the blood. All injurious
habits must be given up; late hours and
intemperance in eating abandoned
smoking if practiced stopped. The food
is important 1t must be abundant
and wholesome-neither too much nor too
little. 1t should not be sloppy, and
soups had better be avoided so long as
solid food can be taken. Rise from the
table feeling you have had enough, but
not oppressed with what you have eaten.
The bread should be stale, and no very
heating food taken. Eight hours sleep
should be taken every night if possible.
This alone will nearly cure. A few raw
oysters before bed time are worth all the
narcotics in the world, are easily di-
gested, and furnish material for restoring
nervous tissue and blood. Ii you wake
up in the middle of the night. sometimes
a small stale biscuit eaten will send you
off to sleep again. A change of scene,
air and cheerful society, with sea-bathing,
are excellent agents for curing nervous
ness. Avoid physic-it !exhausts the
tone of the system, the very thing you
would restore. Above all, keep up
good heart and a firm reliance on the
Great Author of Life-Herdld of Health.
NoURIsHING THE BRAIN.
To increase the plastic property of the
mind you must nourish the brain. You
naturally expect this result may ensue
when the body generally is nourished
and so it will, if there be no exorbitant
demands on the part of other organs,
giving them such preference as te leave
very little for the organ of the mind. If
the digestion or the muscles are unduly
drawn upon, the brain will not respond
to the drafts made upon it. Obversely,
if the brain is so constituted by nature,
or SO excited by stimulation, as to absorb
the lions share of the nutriment, the
opposite will be exalted, and the other
interests more or less impoverished.
This is the situation for an abundant
display of mental fOrce.-Aleraadsr
Balm.
NERVE FOOD.
In what does nerve feod consist? In
what do we find it? Is it meat? no;
white bread? no; potatoes? no. If it is
not found in these staples, in what is it
TO be found l answer, in the exterior
of the white kernel in the skin OF the
potato, and in milk, partially also in eggs
and fish. lanswer, the chief food staples,
in the present dietetic system, are almost
entirely deficient in brain and nerve
building material. In view of these
facts, is it a result to be wondered at that
the starving nervous tissue in the over
worked masses attempts TO satisfy an in
tolerable sense of craving, of physical
hunger, by the use of stimulating pOis-
Ons that temporarily supply the place OF
brain and nerve food / answer, the
cause of intemperance is based upon
fundamental error in the present dietetic
system. Let it always be borne in mind
that stimulating brain poisons-alcohol,
opium and tobaccO--temporarily supply
the place of brain and nerve food. What
is the remedy for intemperance? | an
swer, nerve bodybuilding material to
supply the waste of the nervous tissue
IN the masses. l answer, further, a ref
orniation in the present popular system
of dietetics, by reducing the proportion
Of fat and muscle forming elements, and
increasing the nerve and brain building
material in a proper ratio. Let the sup
ply IN each case meet the demand, and
no more.--Herdidof Health.
THE oVER-EXCIrEMENT OF BUSINESS.
1t is net without a shade of melan-
choly that we notice in almost everv
journal the record of faltering in the
ranks OF business men. This successful
merchant or manufacturer has impaired
his health by overwork, which means
too much nervous excitement. and he
starts for Europe in the hope of build
ing up his health on broken founda-
ton. Another professional man is
aroused from his dream of ambition
with the fiightful conviction that
phthisis has fastened its deadly grasp
upon his vitals, and the grim images of
weakness and decay henceferward fill his
vision. There has been an alarming in
crease OF disease within few years.
having its origin in the causes we have
named, and the effect of it should be to
produce greater moderation. What If
the profits are less? They can be con-
tinued longer and life made happier.
There is no necessity for this waste OF
life-it is sheer delusion, the effect of
foolish ambition Better accept the
heritage of poverty or a moderate sue
cess than the infallible necessity of an
early disease. e.-Hunts Merchants Iiaoa-
zine.
SLEEP THE BEST BRAIN sTIMULANT.
The best possible thing for man to
do when he feels too weak to carry any-
thing through, is to go to bed and sleep
as long as he can. Ibis is the only re-
cuperation of brain power, the only
actual recuperation of brain force; be- !
cause during sleep the brain is in state
of rest, in condition to receive and
appropriate particles of nutriment from
the blood, which take the place of those
which have been consumed by previous
labor, since the very act of thinking