The Washington times., 1894-09-22
WHERE FASHION REIGNS.
Also in the Forum and Busy Marts of
Trade.
Perils That Beset the Student, the Scholar,
the Teacher, and the
Merchant.

No class OF people enjoy such perfect health
as that which earns its living by regular
hours of moderate physical exercise. The
manual laborers, whatever else may be said
OF them, generally know enough 20 rest when
they are tired Neither are they as a rule
disturbed by the ambitions, anxieties. and
avarice. the shocks and eXcitements of busi-
ness and social life. and the overstrains OF
jealous competition that confront large pro-
portion of those In the higher walks of life.
This is why the physical complaints arising
from disorders Of the brain and nervous sys-
TEN are so much more common among the
upper and middle classes. Nervous exhaus-
tion and the diseases directly or indirectly at
tributable thereto, claim more victims than
any of the other ills that affiict the human
family. The malady in its earlier stages IS
too lightly considered by the general ply
sician and by the patient himself Even If
the physician recognizes the gravity of the
condition he is usually unable to treat ii sue
cessfully.
Nervous exhaustion is essentially and pre-
eminently an affection Of modern society, and
is found in its most aggravated type III the
United States. The inducements to active
effort are so great here that the business life
is assumed at an unusually early age and with
extreme zeal. Social duties are very eXacting
and often eXhausting. Young men of abundant
means plunge into fashionable dissipation.
den pleasures, youthful excesses. and late
hours. The students of science, art, litera-
ture, law, and theology overwork their brains
in their haste TO acquire proficiency and posi-
tion in their chosen professions. So the
trouble begins.
The subjects of nervous exhaustion COM
plain of lassitude, want of buoyant feeling,
an indispostion for exertion, mental depres-
sion, and sometimes pains and aches. They
are usually waketul at night, and rise with
sense of fatigue. When stimulated by some
unusual excitement they may be capable of
the usual exertion, but when the excitement
has subsidized they feel exhausted. Dyspepsia
is one OF the most distressing manifestations
OF the disease.
There is one fact that cannot be too forci-
bly, impressed upon the sufferer from nervous
exhaustion. and that is that he is in most
dangerous condition. He should seek a cure
as soon as possible: not cure for some local
trouble, beyond which his physician will
probably be unable to penetrate, but cure
that will remove the cause of all his troubles
and restore his nervous system and mental
faculties 10 their natural state of healthy
activity. To fail to do this is to invite such
deadly diseases as paralysis, paresis, locomo-
tor ataxia, wasting palsy. epilepsy. insanity,
and various affections Of the spine and brain.
Hundreds of victims of this malady are
being cured every week by DR.. r. A. Walker
specialist in the treatment of disorders OF the
brain and nervous system. His extensive
sanitarium at 1411 Pennsylvania avenue, ad-
joining Wizards Hotel, is visited by many
Of Washington's best people. DR.. Walkers
office hours are from 10 a. m. to p. m.
Sundays from 10 to y a. M. and he makes
special appointments with parties upon their
request He also invites sufferers at dis
tance to communicate with him by letter,
having perfected a system of treatment by
correspondence.