The Dickinson press., 1884-01-12
HYPoCHoNDRIA.

~HYPOCHONDRIA.
Tho Mysterious Element in the Mind
That Arouses Vague Apprehensions
What Actually Causes 1t.
The narrative below by a prominent
scientist touches subject o%funiversal i'm
.portance. Few people are free fromthe
distressing evils which hy%pochondria
brings. They come at all times and are
fed by the very flame which they them
selves start. They are a dread of coming
arrangement caused by present disorder
and bring about 0 suicides than any
Editors Herald: Il liz seldom
I appear in print and I should
not do so now did l not believe
myself in possession OF truths, the reve-
iation of which will prove of inestimable
value to many who may see these lines.
Mine has been q trying experience.
For many years 1 was conscious of a want
Of nerve tone. My mind seemed slug
glsh and [ felt a certain telling off in my
natural condition of intellectual acute-
ness. activity and vieor. | presume this
is the Same way in which an innumer-
able number of other people fee, who
like myself are physically below par,
but like thousands of others l paid no
attention to these annoying troubles, at
trlbuting them to Overwork, and resort
ing to Il glass of beer or q 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. liza physician is suffering he in
varlably calls another physician to pre-
scribe for him, as he cannot see himself
as he sees others; so Ical!ed a physician
and he advised me to try a little chemi-
cal food, or a bottle of hypophosphates.
l took two Or three bottles of the chemi-
cal food, with no apparent benefit. My
lassituda and ~indisposition seemed to in.
crease, my food distressed me. lsulfer-
ed from neuralgia pains in different
parts of my body, my muscles became
my prospects for recovery were not
very tiattering. l stated my case to
another physician, and he advised me
to take five to ten drops of Magende's
solution ofmorphine, two or three times
q day, for the weakness and distress in
my stomach, and q blue pill every other
night to relieve the constipation. The
morphine produced such a deathly nau-
sea that | could not take it, and the blue
pill failed to relieve my consti patton.
In this condition l passed nearl year
wholly unfit for business, while the eff
fort to think was irksome and painful.
My blood became impoverished, and |
suffered from incapacity with an appsl-
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, u constantly fe-
verish condition and the most excrucia-
ting fortunes in my stomach, living for
days on rice water and Cruel, and, in
deed, the digestive functions seemed to
he entirely destroyed.
1t was natural that while in this con-
dition l should become hy~pochondrical
and fearful suggestions ofselfdestruction
occasionally presented themselves. | ex-
%perienced an Unsuitable desire for sleep,
but on retiring would lie awake for a
long time tormented with troubled re-
Elections, and when at last l did fall into
an uneasy slumber of short duration, it
was disturbed by horrid dreams. In this
condition | determined to take a 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 g to leave the house.
Among the unerous friends that
called on me WAS one who had been af-
flicted 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 ofbeing ben
Gifted. At first l experienced little, il
any, relief, except that it 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 3 marked change for the bet.
ter, and now after the fifteenth bottle l
am happy to state that / am again able
to attend to my professional duties. l
sleep we'll, nothing distresses me that I
eat, 1 20 from day to day without a feel.
ing Of WEAKNESS or pain. indeed L am a
we'll man, and wholly through the infu-
ence of H.. H. Warner & Co.'s Tippeca'
noe. consider this remedy as taking
the highest possible rank III
the treatment Of all diseases
marked ny debility, loss Of appetite, and
all other symptoms Of stomach and di'
! 6cSllNC OlSOIoOIS. AZ % OfCA ~
superior to tile tonics, bitters, and dys'
pepsia cures of the day, and is certainte
be so acknowledged by the public uni
versally. Thousands of people to day
are going to premature graves with these
serious diseases, that l have:above des
cribed, and to all such I would say
"Do not let your good judgment be gov
erned by your %prejudices, but give the
above named remedy q fair and patien
trial, and | believe you will not only b
rewarded by q perfect restoration t
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.,
1858 fremont street, Boston, Mass.
A Cure of Pneumonia.
Mr.. D. b. Ba,naby, Of o5ego, N: Z.
q y that his daughter was taken with
violent cold which terminated with pnen
uonia. and all the hest physicians gave tn