The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-14
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Nervous People

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Nervous People
A doctor who has given much attsE-
ton to nervous diseases, without being
q specialist IN that line, spoke the other
day about peculiar nervous disorders he
had met with in mis- practice or had
heard OF from his brother phyzicians.
eft is strange % he said, ''Ehat scarcely
any one symPathizes with a person sui.
fering from nervous disease, unless
indeed, one gains coincidence from some
one who has been there But a strong
man OK woman. with no more nerves
than the law allows, thinks that nervous
disorders are a farce, and that the SUI
fering is assumed for some Interior pur-
pose. And yet men viii 60 through the
greatest agony from these causes 1
remember one case Of a student who
wished to make a hurried journey, He
set about packing his grip, but soon be
gan TO hesitate about the disposition he
should make Of each particular article
Then he changed their places a great
number Of times. and fell into great per
pleXity with regard to each one of his
notifications. Finally he arrived at
condition of mental anguish, and was
forced to cOnhde the operation of pack
ing up to another person
''One of the same class Of doubters
prepared to reply to the letters Of some
friends interested in his health, but
experienced so much dOubts-au of
them tFivial--cOncerniug what he should
say, that he was at last seized with a
profound feeling of anguish and despair,
and was restrained with difficulty from
hanging himself forthwith"
zone amusing form of nervous trouble
is what is called word mania Some
of the people so afflicted are constantly
seeking FOR some word which they never
succeed in finding, and whose purPOrt
/ they can not even describe. Others find
| their happiness in life utterly destroyed
/ on account of the imperious necessity
they feel of pronOuucing, at short inter
| walls, some particular word which they
| detest- Some of them are in constant
| fear Of PrOnOuncing certain words which
/ they wish to avoid utterly. lady in
I the latter category was certain that If
| she pronounced particular words some
| people of her acquaintance would die.
/ The desire to say them grew irresistible,
! and she repeated them. As however,
| the persons did not die, she was cured
for time at least, of her malady.
"a man belonging to the first men
! toned group devoted himself for a long
| time to trying to recall the name of a
man he had met but once, and in whom
/ he had not the slightest interest. Still
| another one affected with the word
mania was pursued by the word 'Orgie,
which he 8elt himself obliged, under
! pain OF a horrible perpleNity, to pro
nOunce, performing certain acts or eN-
| ecuting some particular movements.
! 1.-THE fear of dirt is called mysoPhobia,
! The individual breads to touch anything.
| An example is that OF a lady having this
/ affection, who w ashed her hands more
| than two hundred times a day. Another
| patient 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 is that of a
| young lady who conceived so great an
| adherence Of a man who had been
| paying his addresses to her, that she
| heaped together all of the articles in her
| parIor which had been touched by him,
and set fire to them. Albany Argus