The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
HYPOCH0NDRIA.
The Mysterious Element i'm the Mind
that Ar0uses Vague Apprehen-
sfOns-What Actually
| Causes 1t.

The narrative below by prominent sci
enlist touches a subject of universal inn
portance. Few people are free from the
distressing evils which hypochondria
brings. They come at all times and are
fed by the very flame which they them
selves start. They are dread of coming
arrangement caused by present disorder
and bring about more suicides than any
other one thing. Their first approach
should be carefully guarded
Editors Herald:
1t is seldom | appear in print and /
should not do so now did not believe my
self in possession of truths, the revelation
of which will prove of inestimable value
to many who may see these lines. Mine
has been trying experience. For many
years was conscious of want of nerve
tone. My mind seemed sluggish and I
felt certain falling off in my natural
condition of intellectual acuteness, activ-
ity and vigor. / presume this is the same
way in which an innumerable number of
other people feel, who like myself are ply
sically below par, but like thousands of
others paid no attention to these annoy
ing troubles, attributing them to over
work, and resorting to glass of beer or
milk punch which would for the time
invigorate and relieve my weariness.
After awhile the stimulants commenced
to disagree with my stomach, my weari-
ness increased and [ was compelled to re-
| sort to other means to find relief. If a
| physician is suffering he invariably calls
| another physician to prescribe for him, as
he cannot see himself as he sees others;
| so l called physician and he advised me
| to try little chemical food or a bottle of
| hypOphosphates. / took two or three
bottles of the chemical food with no ap-
parent benefit. My lassitude and indis-
| position seemed to increase, my food dis
| f,.ac T 1rr;o
pains in different parts of my body, my
muscles became sore, my bowels were con-
stipated, and my prospects for recovery
were not very f1attering / stated my case
| to another physician, and he advised me to
take five to ten drops of Magende's solu-
tion of morphine, two or three times a
day, for the weakness and distress in my
stomach, and blue pill every other night
| to relieve the constipation. The morphine
produced such deathly nausea that
| could not take it, and the blue pill failed
to relieve my constipation.
In this condition passed nearly year;
wholly unfit for business while the effort
| to think was irksOme and painful. My
| blood became impoverished, and suffered
from incapacity with an appalling sense of
misery and general apprehension of COM
/ ing evil. [ passed sleepless nights and
was troubled with irregular action of the
heart constantly feverish condition and
the most excruciating tortures in my
stomach, living for those days On rice
water and cruel, and, indeed the diges-
tive functions seemed to be entirely de-
stroyed.
1t was natural while in this condition /
| should become hypochondrical and fearful
suggestions of self-destruction occasion
ally presented themselves. / experienced
an Unsuitable desire for sleep, but on retir-
ing would lie awake for a long time tor
| 1o6 ND
when at last did fall into an uneasy
slumber of short duration, it was dis
turbed by horrid dreams. In this condi-
tion determined to take trip to Europe,
but in spite of all the attentions of physi-
clans and change of scene and climate, !
did not improve and so returned home
with no earthly hope of ever again being
able to leave the house.
Among the numerous friends that called
on me was one who had been afflicted some
what similarly to myself, but who had
been restored to perfect health. Upon his
earnest recommendation l began the same
treatment he had employed, but with little
hope of being benefited. AT first | expert
enced little, if any, relief, except that il
did not distress my stomach as other rem
edies or even food had done. / continued
its use, however, and after the third bottle
could see marked change for the better
and now after the fifteenth bottle l an
happy TO state tnat am again able TO at
tend to my professional duties. I sleeI
well, nothing distresses.me that | eat, e
from day to day without feeling of wea
riness or pain; indeed, am well man
and wholly through the influence of H
H. Warner & Co.'s Tippecanoe. l consider
this remedy as taking the highest possible
rank in the treatment of all disease.
marked by debility, loss of appetite, ant
all other symptoms of stomach and diges
| tive disorders. 1t is overwhelmingly su
perior to the tonics, bitters, and dyspepsia
cures of the day, and is certain to be S,
acknowledged by the public universally
! Thousands of people to-day are going t.
premature graves with these serious dis
4 eases, that l have above described, and t,
; all such I would say: ''Do not let you
5 good judgment be governed by your pre-
2 judices, but give the above-named remed,
9 fair and patient trial, and believe yol
: will not only be rewarded by perfect re
storation to health, but you will also b.
! convinced that the medical profession doe
/ not possess all the knowledge that is EN-
? braced in medical SCIENCE"
A. G. RICHARDS, M. D.,
1853 fremont street, Boston, Mass.
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