The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-01-16
HYPOCHONDRIA.
TIE MYsTERIOUs ELEMRNT IN THE MIND
THAT AROUsEs VAGUE APPREHEN
sroNs-wHAT ACTpAILY
CAUSES IT.


scientist touches subject of universal i'm
portsnce. Few people are free from the
distressing evils which hypochondria brings.
They come at all times and are fed by the
very fame which they themselves 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 l 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 iuestimabe value to
many who may see these lines. Mine has
been trying experience. For many years
l was conscious of want OF nerve tone.
My mind seemed sluggish and felt Ger.
tain falling off in my natural condition of
intellectual acuteness, activity and vigor. l
presume this is the same way in which an
innumerable number of other people feel,
who like myself are physically below par,
but like thousands of others | paid no at
tsntion to these annoying troubles, attribu-
| ting them to overwork, and resortng to a
glass of beer or milk punch, which would
for the time invigorste and relieve my
WEAKNESS.
After awhile the stimulants commenced
to disagree with my stomach, my WEAKNESS
increased, and was compelled to resort to
other means to find relief. If physician
10 suffering he invariably calls another ply
| stefan to prescribe for him, as he cannot see
himself as be sees others; so called ply
stefan and he advised me to try little
chemical food, or bottle of hypophophates
took two or three bottles of the chemical
food with no apparent benefit. My lassitude
and indisposition seemed to increase,
my food distressed me.
suffered from neuralgia pains ia
different parts of my body, my muscles
became sore, my bowels were constpated,
and my prospects for recovery were not
very Asttering. stated my case to anoth-
er physician, and he advised me to take five
to ten drops of Magsndes solution of NOR.
phine, two or three times day, for the
weakness and distress in my stom ach, and
q blue pill every other night to relieve the
constipation. The morphine produced such
q deadly nausea that could not take it,
and the blue pill failed to relieve my con-
stipation.
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 incspacity with an sp-
palling sense of misery and general appre-
heusion of coming evil. l passed slespless
nights and was troubled with irregular &C.
ton Of the heart, q constantly feverish con.
dition and the most oxcrucisting tortures
in my stomach, living for days on rice
water and cruel, and, indeed, the digestive
functions seemed to be entirely destroyed.
1t was natural that while in this condi-
ton should become hypochondrcal and
fearful suggestions of self-destruction oc-
casionally presented themselves. l expert
enced an Unsuitable desire for sleep, but ON
retiring would lie awake tor a long time
tormented with troubled reflections, and
when at last did fall into an uneasy slum-
Der of short duration, it was disturbed by
horrid dreams. In this condition / deter
mined to take 9 trip to Europe, but in
spite of all the attentions of physicians
aud 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
somewhat similarly to myself, but who had
been restored to perfect health. Upon his
earnest recommendation began the same
treatment hs had employed but with little
hope of being benefited. At first expert
enced little, il any, relief, except that it
did not distress my stomach as other reme-
dies or even fosd had done. continued Its
use, however, and after the third bottle
could see marked change for the better,
and now after the fifteenth bottle | am
happy to state',as I am again able to At
tend to my professional duties. | sleep
we'll, nothing distresses me that eat, go
from day to day without a feeling of
WEAKNESS or pain, indeed am we'll man
and wholly through the influence of H.
Warner & Co.'S Tippecanoe. consider
this remedy as taking the highest possible
rank in the treatment of all diseases
marked by debility, loss of appetite, and
oil other symptoms of stomach and dlges
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