The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-27
NERVES AND THEIR NEEDS.

i NERVES AND THEIR NEEDS.
our Nervous system and its working
Nerve FOOd-I'he Erect OF Noise On the
BraIn-stimu1ant and sleep-Husi-
ness Cares.
[phiadelphia Press.l
In what does nerve food consist? In
what do we find 1t? Is it meat2 no
white bread? no; potatoes? NO. IL 1t Is
not found In these staples, In what Is 1t
to be found? [ answer, in the exterior
OF the great kernel, in the skin OF the
potato and In milk; partially also In
eggs and fish. ] answer. the chief food
staples, In the dietetie system are almost
entirely deficient In brain and nerve
building material. In view OF these
facts 1t Is q RESULT to be wondered at that
the starving nervous tissue Ia the over
worked masses attempts TO satisfy
an intolerable sense OF craving,
OF physical hunger, by the use
OF stimulating poisons that tempo
rarily supply the place Of brain and
nerve food ? answer, the cause OF in
temperance Is based upon fundamental
Let 1t always be borne In mind that
stimulating brain poisons- alcohol,
opium and tobacco-temporarily supply
the place OF brain and nerve food. What
Ia the remedy for intemperance / an
swer. nerve bodybuilding material to
supply the waste OF the nervous tissue
In the masses. answer, further, re-
form In the present popular system OF
dietetics by reducing the portion OF fat
and muscle forming elements, and in
creasing the nerve and brain building
material In proper ratio. Let the sup
ply In each case meet the demand and
no more.
I NERVOUSNESS AND NERvINESs
Nervousness liz one of the prices we
have for civilization the nervous savage
Is being unheard OF. For this disorder
which is partly OF mental and partly OF
bodily nature relief is thought In various
ways, and among these we may place
the employment of narcotics. The
temporary relief afforded by these
drugs ID very apt to lead those who suf-
fer from nervous sensations to put too
much trust in and resort too frequently
to them. In the long run they prove
most destructive to health. Their use
has OF late become 90 frequent as
to threaten society. with q serious evil.
a chloral is to be found In the work
boxes and baskets OF nearly every lady
In the west end OF the metropolis, to calm
her nerves. No doubt this is an exaggera-
tion, but 1t Ia q fact that New York
choral punch has become an institution
scarcely year after the introduction OF
chloral Ia medical practice, and now it
turns out that GeTmany-"sober, or
dsrly, paternally- Germany"-has
such athing as morphine disease spread
ing among its population. The symp-
toms are not unlike those Of opium eat
ing, Experience suggests that persons
suffering from the disease should al
once be deprived OF the drug. Their
wilfullness and liability to relapse,
however, are 80 great that it Is said that
only about twenty five per cent have
been seen to recover in large series OF
cases.
THE EFFECT OF NOISE ON THE BRAIN.
There Ia close connection between q
healthy brain and quiet, unirritated
auditory nerve. It Is not impossible
that tile noise in which we live, and
which fools delight In as signs OF cos
mopolitan il Q, Is responsible for much
OF the paralysis, neuralgia and general
nervous irritability, characteristics OF
4 modern times. It is no laughable mat
ter, but a serious one, and useless noises
ought to be abated as nuisances. Let
1t be remembered that OF all our five
senses two only are intellectual. the in
struments OF art culture, seeing and
hearing. II anything, hearing Is the
most highly and purely intellectual, for
artieulate speech, reason and rythmie
poetry and music depend upon this
function. The constituencies OF an organ
Is In proportion to its delicaey, and ex-
quisite torture can be caused by the
ear. The eye we can protect, for we
can close it at will, but the ear IL an
ever open portal, and throws US upon
the mercy OF mankind.
THE ovER-ExoITEMENT OF BUSINESS.
It is not without shade Of melan-
choly that we notice In almost every
In the ranks of business men. This
successful merchant or manufacturer
has impaired his health by over work,
which means too much nervous excite
ment. and he starts for Europe In the
hope of building up his health on q
broken foundation. Another profess
sional man Ia aroused from his dream
of ambition with the frightful convic-
ton that phthisis has fastened it's dead
ly grasp upon his vitals, and the grim
images of weakness and decay hence
forward fill his vision. There has been
an alarming increase Of disease within
q few years, having its origin in the
causes we have named, and the effect Of
1t should be to produce greater modera-
ton. What ii the profits are less ?
They can be continued longer and life
made happier. There Is no necessity
| for this waste of life--it Is a sheer delu-
sion, the effect of q foolish ambition.
Better accept the heritage of poverty
or a moderate success than the infalli-
BILE necessity Of an early disease.
/. SLEEP THE BEST BRAIN sTIMuLANT.
The best possible thing for a man to
do when he feels too weak to carry any
thing through Is to 90 to bed and sleep
as long as he can. This Ia the only re-
cuperation Of brain power, the only
actual recuperatfon OF brain force, be-