The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-15
UYPOCHONDRIA.
The Mysterious Element In the Mind tn
Arouses Vague Apprehcnsions-W What A,

The narrative below by prominent scien.
fist touches a subject of universal impor.
lance. Few people are free from the dis
tressing evils which hypochondria brin rs.
They co me at all times and are fed bv the
very flame 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 | appear in print and should
not do so now did | not believe myself in
possession of truths. the revelation of which
will prove of inestimabTe value to many who
may see these lines Mine has been trying
experience. For many years | was CON
scious of want of nerve tone NV
mind seemed sluggish and | felt a certain
falling off in my natural condition of in
tellectual acuteness activity and vigor.
presume this is the same way in which an in
Vulnerable number of otter people feel who
like myself are physically below par, but like
! thousands of others | paid attention to
these annoying troubles, attributng them t.,
overwork, and resorting to a GAS of beer or
a mi Tx punch, which would for the time in
vigorate and relieve my WEAKNESS.
After awhile the stimulants commenced to
disagree with my stomach, my WEAKNESS in
creased, and | was compelled to resort to
other means to find relief. If physician is
suffering he invariably calls another phys-
CluI 10 DIpStTlDt lot MN, as ne cannot see
himself as he sees others so | called physi.
clan and he advised me to try q little chemi-
cal food, or a bottle of hypophoSphates
took two or three bottles of The chemi-
cal food with no apparent benefit My
lasstude and indsposition seemed to
increase, my fool distressed me. | suffered
from neuralgia pains in different parts of my
body, my muscles became sore, nv bowels
were consiipated, and my prospects for re COW
cry were not very fatterinC. | stated my
case to another physician, and he advised me
to take five to ten drops of Magendes solution
of morphine, two or three times day, for the
weakness and distress in my stomach and a
blue pill every other night to relieve the con
stipation. The morphine produced such a
deathly nausea that | coull not take it, and
the blue pill failed to relieve my CONSTR alton
In this condition | Iassed nearly a 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 genera apprehension of coming evil. |
passed sleepless nights and was troubled with
irregular action of the heart, a constantly
feveri,h condition and the most eycruciatng
tortures i'll my stomach. living for DAYS on
rice water and cruel, and indeed, the diges-
tive functions seemed to be entirely DESTROYED
1t was natural that while i'll this condition
l should become hypochondrical and fearful
suggestions of self-destruction occasionally
presenter themselves. experienced IN
satiable desire for sleep, but on retiring
would lie awake for a long time tormented
with troubled reflections, and when at last
did fall into an uneasy slumber of short dura-
ton, it was disturbed by horrid dreams. In
this condition | determined to take trip to
Europe, but in spite of all the attent ons of
physicians 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 began the same treatment
he had employed, but with little hope of
being benefited. At first / experienced little,
if any, e.ief, except that it did not distress
my stomach as other remedies or even food
had done. | continued its use, however, and
after the third bottle could see a marked
change for the better, and now after
the fifteenth bottle | am happy to state
that am again able to attend to my profess
fessional duties. ! sleep well, nothing dis
tresses me that eat, go from day to day
without feeling Of WEAKNESS or pain, in
deed. | am a well man, and wholly through
the influence of H. H. Warner q Co s Tippe-
canoe | consider this remedy as taking the
highest possible rank in the treatment of
all diseases marked by debility. loss of appe-
tite, and all other symptoms of stomach and
digestive disorders. III is overwhelming
ly superior to the ton cS, bitters,
and dyspepsia cures of the day, and is certain
to be so acknowledged by the public univer-
sally. Thousands of people today are going
to premature graves with these serious dis
eases, that have above described, and to all
such | would say "Do not let your good
Judgment be governed by your preiudices,
but give the above named remedy fair and
patient trial, and believe you will not only
be rewarded by a perfect restoration to
health, but you will also be convinced that
the medical profession dos not possess all
the knowledge there is embraced in medical
science A. G. RICHARDS, NJ. D.,
46S fremont street, Boston, Mass.
THERE are eleven ex-governors in the
United States Senate
ARFmPdy for Lung Diseases.
DR.. Robert Newton, late president Of the
Eclectic college, of the city of New York, and
formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, used DR.. VIM.