Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-18
COW NOT 20 BE NERVOUS.
-. William A. II aE.:,.Sra in ur Con-
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BOW NOT 20 BE NERVOUS.
-. William A. II az. a.Sra in O. r Con-
tineHt.
Nervousness is nervous weakness. The
principal sign Of feeble nervous organ
lzation IS In an excessive degree of jrri-
liability OF one or more of the organs of
the body. # the nervous system be
weak the organs to which the nerves are
distributed will also be weak, and weak
organ is always an irritable one.
It takes very little to throw such an
organ out of its orderly course of action.
Some slight cause Or other acting on
s'nervous" brain creates such degree
of i1ritability that its possessor feels as
If he would like to "jump out OF his
skin" or he may be thrown into par
oxysm OF intense emotional disturbance,
or sick headache, an attack of hysteria,
or even more severe disorder may re-
suit. A "nervous" eye or ear is an
noyed by unusual or persistent lights or
sounds; nervous heart palpitates
and flutters after slight mental or bodily
exertion a nervous stomach is irri-
tated by food which healthy baby
could easily digest, and the condition
known as "nervous dyspepsia" is IN
duced and a nervous spine," to
specify no further, causes arrangements
OF nearly all the organs of the body.
10 cure is sometimes impossible. To
prevent them even in persons predis-
posed to nervousness is comparatively
an easy matter.
The whole hygiene of the subject is
embraced In the sentence-strengthe
the nervous system.
How is this to be done?
Flrst-The first prescription is an am
pie supply of pure, fresh and cool air.
The nerves will always be weak if the
greater part OF the day and night is
passed in close, ll-ventilated and over
heated apartments. The nerves more
than the rest Of the body, to be properly
nourished, require full supply Of
oxygen. They will not endure a vitiated
air, whether the impurities come from
sewers, gas-hghts, subterranean fur
naces, or the individuals own person,
without making an energetic protest.
A gas burner consuming four cubic
feet of gas per hour produces more car
bonic acid in given time than is
evolved from the respiration of eight
adult human beings. Bear this in mind,
you who suffer from nervousness, that
when you have shut yourself up in your
rooms and lighted an argand burner
(Which consumes about twelve cubicfe feet
Of gas per hourl, you are to all intents
and purposes immured with twenty-three
other persons, all taking oxygen from the
same atmosphere. Is it a wonder that
after several hours exposure to the de-
PRAYED air your nerves should rebel as
far as their weak state permits, and that
your head should ache, your hands
tremble and your daughters playing on
the piano almost drive you wild?
An overheated apartment always ener-
Yates its occupants. It is no uncommon
thing to find rooms heated In. winter by
an underground furnace up to 80 deg.
Fights and murders are more numerous
in hot than in cold weather, and the
artifcially heated air that rushes into
our rooms, deprived as it is of its nat
urai moisture by the baking it has un-
dergone, is even more productive of
vicious passions. 1t is no surprising
circumstance, therefore, to find a woman
who swelters all day in such tempera-
ture, and adds to it at night by super
fuous bed clothing, cross and disagree
able from little every day troubles that
would scarcely ruff1e her temper if she
kept her rooms at sc degrees, and opened
her windows every now and then.
Second-Eat plenty of we'll cooked and
nourishing food. The nerves cannot be
kept healthy on Stops. .Gruels, panadas
and teas are well enough in their way,
but the nerves require for their proper
nourishment undiluted animal and vege-
table food as rule, the former should
predominant. Meat eaters are rarely
troubled with nervousness. Americans
eat more vegetables than any other we'll
TODD people, and they are probably the
most sshervous nation on the face of
the earth.
Third-Take sufficient physical exer-
else in the open air. When you feel
irritable, tremulous, fretful, fidgety and
unable to concentrate your thoughts on
the veriest trife, take long walk or split
half a cord Of wood. Even the extreme
nervousness of lunatics is best Quoted
by bodily labor. The homicidaL maniac
who cannot, if kept in his cell, be
trusted with bodkin, may safely be
given spade, pickax or hoe, and set to
work in the garden. His irritability is
quietly led off into another. and safer
channel, and his nerves are strength
ened.
These are the principal rules. IF they
were faithfully followed, there would be