River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-10
HYPoUHoNDRTA.
The Mysterious Element I'm the Mind
That Arouses Vague apprehension
What Actually Causes IL.

That Arouses Vague approximations
What Actually Causes IL.
The narrative below by prominent
scientist touches subject Of universal i'm
portance. Few people are free from The
distressing evils which hypochondris.
brings. They come at all times and are
fed by the Very flame which they them
selves start. They are q dread OF coming
arrangement caused bv present disorder
and bring ab nut more suicides than any
other one thing. Their first approach
should be carefully guarded.
Editors Herald: 1t is seldom
appear in prina and | should
not do so now did | not believe
myself in possession of truths, the reve-
iation of which will prove ofinestimable
value to many who may see these lines.
Mipe has been n trying experience.
For many years ! was conscious of want
of nerve tone. My mind seemed slug
gish and | felt a certain f. ling off in my
natural condition OF intellectual acHie-
ness, activity and yigor. presume this
Is the same way in which an iunumer-
able number of other people fee, who
like myself are physically below par,
but like thousands of others | paid no
attention to these annoying troubles, at
Ia
ing to glass OF beer " milk punch,
which would for the time invigorate and
relieve my WEAKNESS.
After awhile the stimulants COM
menced to disagree with my stomach,
my WEAKNESS increased, and | was com
PEELED to resort to other means to find
relief. If "A physician is suffering he in
variahly calls another physician TO pre-
scribe for him, as he cannot see himself
as he sees others; so called physician
and he advised me to try little chemi-
cal food, or bottle of hypophosphates
| took two or three bottles of the chefni-
cal food, with no apparent benefit. My
lassitudG and indispositiOn seemed to in
crease, my food distressed me. Isuffer-
cd from neuralgic pains in different
parts OF my body, my muscles became
sore, my bowels were eonstipated, and
my prospects for recovery were not
very fatteung. / stated my case to
anutho: physician, and he advised me
TO take five to ten drops of Magende's
solution ofmorphinc, two or three times
q day, for the weakness and distress in
my stomach, and blue pill every other
night TO relieve the constipation. The
morphine produced such deathly nau-
sea that | could not take it, and the blue
In this condition passed nearly year
wholly unfit for business, while the eff
fort to think was irKsome and painful.
My blood became impoverished, and
suffered from incapacjty with an app1l-
ing sense of misery and general appre-
hension of coming evil. l passed sleep
less nights and was troubled with irreg-
ular action of the heart, q constantly fe-
yerish condition and the most excrucla-
ting tUrtures in my stomach, living for
days on rice water and Cruel, and, in
deed, the digestive functions seemed to
he entirely destroyed.
1t was natura. that while in this con-
dition | should become hypOchondrical
and fearful suggestions ofselfdestruCtion
occasionally presented themselves. | ex-
Derienced an Unsuitable desire for sleep,
but ON retiring would lie awake for
long time tormented with troubled re-
Elections, and when at last did fall into
an uneasy siumber of short duration, it
was disturbed by horrid dreams. In this
condition determined to take trip to
Europe, but in spite of all the attentions
of physicians and change of scene and
climate ] did not improve and so re-
turned home with no earthly hope ofev-
er again being alb to leave the house.
Among the nu nerous friends that
called on me was one who had been af-
fl cteSi somewhat similarly to myself, but
who had been restored to perfect health.
Upon his earnest recommendation | be-
gan TIE same treatment he had en-
ployed but with little hope of being ben
cited. At first | experienced little, if
any, relief, except TIL t 1t did not dis
tress my stomach as other remedies or
even food had done. / continued its
use, however, and after the third bottle
could see marked change for the bet
ter, and now after the fifteenth bottle |
am happy to state that | am again able
to attend to my professional duties. |
sleep well, nothing distresses me that I
eat, / 90 from day to day without feel
ing Of WEAKNESS or pain, indeed | am q
well man, and wholly through the influ
ence of Ii. II. Warner & Co.'s Tlppeca-
noe. | consider this reinedy as taking
the highest possible rank in
the treatment OF all diseases
marked by debility, loss ofappetite, and
all other symptoms of stomach and di-
: estive disorders. It is overwhelmingly
superior to the toniCs, bitters, aud dys-
pepsia cures Of tue day, and is certain to
be so acknowledged by the public uni
versally. Thousands of people to day
are going to premature grJves with these
serious diseases, that | have above des-
cribed, and to all such | would say
''Do not let your good judgment be gov
erned by your preiudlces. but give the
above named remedy fair and patient
trial, and l believe you will not only be
by perfect restoration to
health, but You will also be convinced
that the medical profession does not pos
sess all the knowledge there is embraced
in medical science
A. G.. RICHARDS, NJ. D.,
463 fremont street, Boston, Mass.