Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-08-31
How to Escape Nervousness.
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| Nervousness is nervous weakness.
The principal sign of feeble, nervous
organization is an excessive degree of ir-
ritability of one or more of the members
of the body. If the nervous system be
weak the organs to which the nerves are
distributed will always be weak, and
organ is always an IRRITABLE one.
1t takes very little to throw such an
organ out of its orderly course of action
Some slight cause or other acting on a
nervous" brain creates such degree of
irritability that its possessor feels as
if he would like to Jump out of his skim
or he may be thrown into a paroxvsm
of intense emotional disturbance, or
sick headache an attack of hysteria, or the
ear is annoyed by unusual or persistent
lights or sounds; a ''net&ous'' heart palpi-
tates and tiutters after slight mental or
bodily eNertlOn; nervous stomach is
irritated 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 arrangement of near
these various disorders is often difficult
and sometimes impossible. To prevent
them even in persons predisposed to
nervousness is comparatively an easy
matter.
The whole hygiene of the subject is
embraced in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the nervous system.
How is this to be done?
First-The first prescription is an ample
supply of pure, fresh air. The nerves
will always be weak if the greater part
of the day and night be passed in close,
ill-ventilated and overheated apartments.
The nerves more than the rest Of the
body, to be properly nourished requiret
full supply of oxygen. They will not
endure vitiated air, whether the i'm
purities come from sewers, gas-lights,
subterranean furnaces, or the individuals
own person, without making an ener-
getic protest.
A gas-burner consuming four cubic
feet of gas per hour produces more car
bonic acid in a 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 yourselves up in
your rooms and lighted an argand? burn
er (Which consumes about twelve cubic
feet of gas per hour, you are to all in
tents and purposes lmmured with twen-
ty-three other persons, all taking oxy-
gen from the same atmosphere. Is it a
wonder that after several hours ex-
posure to the depraved air your nerves
should rebelas 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 apartments always ener-
Yates its occupants. 1t 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 ar
officially heated air that rushes into our
rooms, deprived as it is of it's natural
moisture by the baking it has undergone,
is even more productive of vicious
passions. 1t is no surprising circum-
stance, therefore, 10 find a woman who
swelters all day in such temperature,
and adds to 1t at night by supertiuous
bed clothing, cross and disagreeable from
little everyday troubles that would
scarcely ruffie her temper if she kept
her rooms at 65 degrees, and opened her
windows every now and then.
Second-Eat plenty of well-cooked
and nourlShlng food. The nerves cam
not be kept healthy on Stops Gruels,
panadas and teas are well enough in their
way, but the nerves require ior their
proper nourishment undiluted ami
NAL and vegetable food; as rule the
former should predominant. Meat-deal-
ers are rarely troubled with nervousness.
Americans eat more vegetables than any
other well-to-do people, and they are
probably the most nervous" nation on
the face of the earth.
Third-Take sufficient physical exer-
else in the open air. When you feel IT.
ritable, tremulous, fretful, fgety and un-
able to concentrate your thoughts on the
veriest trihe, 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, pickaxe or hoe, and set to work
in the garden. His irritabi!ity is quietly
led oft into another and safer channel,
and his nerves are strengthened.
These are the principal rules. If they
were faithfully followed, there would be
less work for doctors to do.