The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-08-02
Howro EscApE NERvousNEss.

IDr. VIA \ Hammond in our Contincnt.I
Nervousness is nervous weakness. Tx
p. ;ncipal sign OF a feeble nervous organi
Eatlon IS en- excessive degree of irritable.
| ty of one or more of the organs of the
boiy. IL the nervous system be weak
the organs Ia sshich the nerves are dis
tributed will also be weak; and a weak
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 q
''nerS"us" brain creates such a degree of
irritability that its possessor feels as il
he would like to Jump out of his skin, %
or he may be thrown Into parOxysm of
intense emntional disturbance, or a sick
headache, an attack of hysterin, or even
mOre severe disorder may result. A
nervous" eye or ear is annoyed by I'M
usual ar persistent lights or sounds; a
nervous" heart palpitates and futters
after slight mental or bodily exertion /;
nervous" stomach is irritated by food
which . healthy baby could easily digest,
and the condition known as "nervouE
dyspepsia" to specify no further, causes
arrangements of nearly all the organs of
the body. To cure these disorders Is oft
en- difficult and 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 Strengthen
the nervous system.
How is this 70 be done?
|. First-The first prescription is an am
pie supply of pure, fresh and good air.
The nerves will always be weak if the
greater part of the day and night be pass
ed Ia close, in-vensilated and overheated
apaxtments. The nerves more than the
rest Of the body, to be properly nourish-
cd, require full supply of oxygen.
They viii not endure a vitiated air,
whether the Impurities come from sewers,
gaslights, suhseFzanean furnaces, or the
individuals own person, without max.
ing an energetic protest.
A gas-burner consuming four cubic
feet Of gas per hour produces more car.
bonic acid in given length of time than
10 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
yoEy rooms and lighted an srgaLA
burner (Which consumes about twelve
cubic feet of gas per hour), you are TO ell
tntents and purposes immuTed with tWen.
ty.three other persons, all taking oxygen
from the same atmosphere. Is it won
der that after several hours exposure 70
the depraVed air your nerves should re.
bel g faF a. theif weak state permits
and that your head should ache, your
hAada tfembls and your daughter playing
on che piano almost drive you wiIdf
An oVerheated apartment always ener-
Yates it occupants. II Is no uncommon
thing % find rooms heated In winter by
an underground furnace up TO 80 degrees.
rights and murders are more numerous
GhelaIIy heated air that Yushee into our
TooBs, deprived Is it is Of its natural
moisture By the baking It has undergone,
il even more productive of vicious pas.
sions. It is no surprising circumstance,
therefore, to find woman who swelters
all day In such temperature, and adds
to it at night by superfuous bed clothing,
Cross and disagreeable from little every
day troubles that would scarcely ruffie
her temper if she kept her rooms at &c
degrees, a9d opened her windows every
1Ow and then.
second-Eat plenty of well-cooked
and nourishing food, The nerves cannot
be kept healthy on slop. Gruels, pana.
das and teas are we'll enough in their
way, but the nerves require for their
proper nOurishment undiluted animal
and vegetable food; as a rule the former
should predominant. Meateaters 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 ir-
ritable, tremulous, frctful, fdgety and
unable to concentrate your thoughts on
the veriest trifle, take long walk or split
half 3 cord of wood. Even the extreme
nervousness of lunatiOs is best quieted
BY bodily labor. The hOmicidal maniac
who cannot, if kept in his cell, be trust
ed with a bodkin, may safely be given
spade, pickzzs or hoe, and set to work in
the gsslleB. His irritahility is quietly
led into another and safer channel,
AMI his nerves are strengthened,
These afe sc si1sncipal Fules. If they
were faith followed, there would be
leas work 1e doctors TO do.