The Red Cloud chief., 1891-07-31
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o.e.s Sssass which -. Essr~osay
nerves. resps~
Adocsn. who has gircu narh as'~o-
ton 60 nervous diseases without bring
. xpeciaiis, IN that line. spoke h ID
day about peculiar nervous discriers he
had met with In hts practice 80 had
heard Of from his brother Physicians
..It IL strange be said. 'fhss scarcely
any one x~vmpathizes with . psr>oo sui
fering from . nervous disease. uniess
indeed. one gains eondoienec FROM scsne
one who has tcen there But . sirosis
man or wonAn with no more nerves
than the law allows. thinkst that nervous
disorders are a farcc. and that the SUI
fering 4, assumed for some nl,ertor par
pose And yet men viii 20 through the
greatest agony from these CAUSES u
remember one case Of . student who
wished 20 make . hurried Journey. Tie
set about packing his grip bu, s-sn BE-
gan 90 hesitate abou: the disposition he
should make OF each particular article
Then he changed their places = grcs,
number Of times and fell into grcat per
plexity with regard To each on. Of his
notifications Finally he arrived n, .
condition of mental anguish. and was
forced to conhde the operation Of pack
ing up to another person.
'One ~ the same class ~ doab,ers
prepared ;o reply "a the letters of sone
friends Interested in his health. bat
experienced . much doubts all os
them trisial-eonc.rning what he should
say. that he was at last s-iked with n
profound feeling W anguish and despair,
and was restrained with difficulty from
hanging himself forthwith"
.One amusing form ~ nervous trouble
il what il called word mania Some
Of the people 80 afflicted arc constantly
seeking for some word which they never
succeed in finding. and whose purport
they can no, even describe. Othcr>t find
their happiness in life utterly destroyed
on account Of the impericus necessity
they feel Of ~pronouncing. st short inter
valS sotne particular word which thry
d-test Some of them are in eons,an,
fear Of pronouncing certain words which
they wish to avoid utterly. A lady In
the latter category was certain that N
she pronounced particular words some
people of her acquaintance would die.
The desire Ia say them grew Irresistible.
and she repeated them. As however,
the persons did not die. She was cured.
for a time at least. Of her malady.
"A man belonging Ia the first men
toned group devoted himself for n long
tim. q trying to recall the name Of n
man he had met but once. and in whom
he had not the slig h est interest still
another one affected with the word
msnia was pursued by the word 'orgie.
which he felt himself obliged. under
pain of a horrible p~crpleSi,y, IL pro
nounce. performing certain acts "r cN-
c~cuting some particular movements
The fear OF dirt is called mysnphobia.
The individual breads ,o touch anything.
An example is that 81 n lady hsvingth this
affection. who washed her hands more
than I'VE hundred times n day. Another
patisnt would not touch "a door Knob
without putting on gloves, while an
other. who spent four hours every night
in preparing for bed. always used up
twenty fresh towels in drying his hands
A curious case of this sort il that 81 "A
Young lady who conceived 49, great an
abhorrencc Of a man who had been
paying his addresses To her. hat She
hcaped together all Of the articles in her
parlor which had heen touched by him.
and set fire to thcm."-AIbany Argus