The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-08

The loss Of . firm character. or the
degradation Of . nations honor. j. the
inevitable prelude TO her destruction.
Behold the once proud fabric Of .
Roman empire.
Ar empire carrying her arts and
arms into every part OF the eastern
continent.
Rome lost her national honor and
her destruction followed.
Where are her sages, her philoso-
Pliers, and her generais7 Go to their
solitary tombs and enquire.
The loss OF nerve power In man II
the evifabie prelude to physical de-
generacy. paralysis, insanity and
death The first sign OF physical
weakness and debility usually mani
TESTS itself in loss Of nerve power
and vitality.
Here il the starting point for more
than half the ailments OF the human
race. In the days of Socrates. it was
considered mark Of greatness TO pos
sess robust physical development.
In our days, females consider it a
pronounced mark Of beauty to hook
pale, white and dwarf-wsisted. Many
men cultivate the aesthetic by aping
the dude and changing night into
day for the purpose OF developing a
fashionable physique.
When man or women loses nerve
power he or she has lost the key to
health and happiness, and Il on the
broad highway to a life Of chronic
inraiidism. mental arrangement and
the silent cemetery.
That countless thousands are now
suffering from sexual excavation is ev-
erywhefe apparent; il nanifests itself
In our homes, ON the streets, in the
insane asylums. and more especially
in the divorce courts.
On every hand men and women with
pale faces, weak, faltering steps and
wretchedness depicted in every Inca
ment of their countenances may he
seen vending their way through life
in silent misery, because of the loss OF
the grand, majestic power which con-
trols the empire OF physical develop
ment. Full, robust health, with all
the nerve and brain power necessary
to physical and mental development,
IL the highest type OF manhood.
So degenerate have We become as
nation, il Ii almost impossible to PIC
ture n Venus or Hcbe anywhere
among our countrymen.
The muitifarious causes which have
led up to this condition We viii not
ELABORATE here: men Of today care
very little for cause. Ii they can
grasp effect and cure at once. they are
satisfied; OF effects, nearly everyone
can tell sad story; of cures. there
have been so few in times past a small
would record them all.
For upwards OF many years Drs.
Darrin's professional attention has
been exclusively devoted TO the strdy
and investigation Of these important
ailments, and il Is with par,ionahle
pride that they refer TO the success
which they have achieved in their
treatment ard cure. electromagnetic
ism. their method Of practice. is dis
tinctiy original. based upon strictly
ratiosal and scientific principles, and
followed by the hapfiest results.
Electro magnetism, applied to the
debilitatcd system, restores nervous
energy and effects permanent cures
when all other remedies have failed.
electromagnetic force Is just as natur
al and necessary 20 the nerves rs bread
Is to the stomach. and by the same
law il gives new life, power and ener-
gy. To get satisfactory results we must
apply nature mt. which advanced
civilization and education have de-
elarei TO emboiy the greatest curative
principles known To the scientific
world.
II il one OF the happy features OF
Drs. Darrin's practice, that the appli-
cation eau es neither pain nor distress.
and can therefore hc readily admins
tered 10 the most nervous person.
They may safely state that Patients