Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-08
OF Columbus. Ohio. Gives Another Of
His Popular Lectures on Medicine.
Nervous Prostration-Its Causes, Eff
fects, Symptoms and Cure.
Nervines Nuisance, BromIdes Bane, Soda
tives a Slaughter.
Natural Effective Remedies that Never
Fail.

spinal anamia, nervousness and weak
ness are different names given to an
affection of the nervous system, which is
becoming more and more common. The
habits of the average American is, In
almost every particular, calculated to
produce this form of nervous disorder.
Hard work, close competition, business
uncertainties, little sleep and high liv-
ing, the use of narcotics, all tend alike
to injure the nervous system. The dress
and customs of polite society, the ever
increasing pressure of business circles,
the reckless indulgence of the sporting
classes, each furnish their quota to swell
the terrible list of nervous wrecks that
crowd the many hospitals and sanitari-
ums of our country. Thousands remain
| at their homes, desperately trying to go
| through the tedious routine of the duties
! of household, farm, shop or office, taxi
! ing nervile after nervine, vainly striving
10 put off the day when they shall break
down altogether. A burden to them
selves, trial to their friends, these I'M
fortunate people continue to drag out
miserable existence year after year.
| SYMPTOMS.
Probably the most inyariable symptom
in the history Of nervous prostration is
morbid fear. A foreboding OF calamity
| of some sort, vague apprehensons,
sense that something awful is about to
happen, often precedes for long time
| the general debility which is to follow.
The loss of vitality of the nervous system
hn N n
| every organ in the body. The headSis
| one day congested with too much blokd,
and perhaps the next day pallid, begssfse
of too little blood. Twitchiug otsthe
| eyelids, moving brown specks befoI the
! eyes, and metallic ringing IN the esg4sare
| the result of brain exhaustion. Eheiap-
| petite and digeSkspp may RENAL 9Eood,
although loss Of nSetite and ervous
| dyspepsia are Teryst ioften pSFtninent
symptoms in such Ses IS 1 SSaSse Stomach
after eating, with befslfsng Of gas, is very
troublesome-a feslin6sQf great weight
In the stomach affH aksng full meal,
producing IN sonis8 esza terrible de-
preston, causing IL, pesient indescrib-
able suffering, eyeHz1Ehen the appetite
and digestion refahlA gAed.
Morbid fear of3aE*tb home, or being
l.separated from tAeir dsal attendants,
| also of taking medicine fcffear of being
poisoned fear of gret atorms of crowded
assefhplies, alEpt ,sseE and many others
are likely to bepreseAA decided case
of nervous prostration! "a constant de-
sire to talk of their symptoms is common
1gsso great as to make it difficult to keep
sueAss patients longat time talking or
thinking OF anything else. Chills and
hot flashes syeTS irregular Duration
and recurrenee COME and go without
seeming causSss TheShands and feet are
usually cold pad clagehy, aud the gener-
! al tendency34g aesaEyness and GOODNESS
of the skin of'shsRhole body.
Among the symptoms to which this
class of patientsEare liable, but not
always present, may be mentioned neu-
! ralgie headache. nervous chIlls, hysterla,
sinking or faint speis, distressing palpi
tation of the heart, defective eyesight,
total inability to read, write or do any
business. urine abundant, WITHOUT color,
loss of flesh, sleeplessness, sexual excita-
bilitY, and many others, of which each
case presents different array.
HYG1EN1c TREATMENT.
This consists, hrst, of as entire change
of habits as possible. Whatever voca-
ton the patient has followed should be
entirely suspended, or as nearly so as
possible, and some other employment
taken up to the extent the strength of
the patient will permit. Entire leisure
is not favorable to Improvement, as the
patients are too apt to dwell on their
troubles.
Second, the diet should consist largely
of animal food, guided by the prefer
ence of the patient. A long walk be-
fore bedtime will frequently procure
good nights rest. A tepid bath Gifted
will accomplish the same desirable end.
Il is generally impossible to keep the
bowels regular by any hygienic measures,
as the patient is unable 60 take exercise
enough TO keep up the natural action of
the bowels. An effective and gentle
laxative that does not weaken or dis
turb digestion Is a very desirable remedy
in these cases, but hard to find. l have
found Man-a-lin to be by far the best
laxative in these cases have ever been
able TO procure. There is no laxative
the equal of Man-a-lin in cases where a
natural movement of the bowels is desir-
able rather than active purgatioD.
SPECIFIC MEDICAL TREATMENT.
The first difficulty meet with in the
proper treatment of nervous prostration
is to get my patients rid of the many
nervines, stinulants and sedatives which
they have usually become accustomed to
before consulting me. 1t would be diff
cult to over estimate the damage these
drugs do in such cases. Bromides ,valeri-
mates, chloral, opium in every FORM
caffeine, cocaine and many others arsStii
alike of great injury and OF no possible
gobd. To get all these and many other
similar remedies away from the patient,
land Pe-ru-na in their stead, il the hresSl
thing to be accomplished.
Before the patient has taken Pe-ru-nss
to the exclusion of everything else, six
months, there is e marked change in all
the symptoms. The appetite becomes
regular, sleep natural, and every DIS
agreeable symptom improved. OF course
IL is usually year or more before q per-
manent cure is realized, but it is only a
question Of time; Pe-ru-na will not fan
to cure single uncomplicsted case. Pc
ru-ns is a perfect specific for these cases,
and is absolutely lnvlnelble. There are
no failures where these directions are
faithfully followed. The improvement
is prompt, and the patient can rest as
sured that perfect cure will follow q
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