Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-09
Nervous and Physical Prostitution:

many easily understood and appreciated,
but the most dangerous and destructive
are those insidious and concealed sources
which are SO characteristic of modern
social life that they almost seem an Incl
dent of our civilization. From the over
tasked child at school to the effete ana
languid man of advanced leisure, samples
multiply on every hand.
How does this terrible affection begin:
Above beneath, beyond all else, ncr-
VOusnesS-nervous weakness that state
when one seeks solitude, when we find
cOmpauionship i1ksome, when We wish
70 be alone. when we lose retentivc facul-
ties and it becomes impossible to fix the
mind on any given object for any length
of time, when we experience general
lancuor. weakness, dizziness of sensations
dizziness, a dimnesS of sight, loss OF
memory, a gloomy and depressed condi
tion of mind, headache and faintness.
We blush at the slightest cause, are timid,
feel our nervous force give way, are
| slecpless have no confidence, despair.
want ambition. suffer days of aimless
unrest and nights Of unrefreshing wake
fitness. O disagrecable taste that destroys
the appetite.
| Then comes restlessness without actiy
| ity; tremulous voice in excitement, irrita-
| bility at the least provocation, dull,
cloudy lack of sensations, disagrecabic
| feeling VIC cannot explain, affecting the
head and eyes and confused condition OF
mind we cannot control. AT times we
realize weakness in the back and palpita-
ton of the heart, attended with pain and
discomfort. We have no force, no energy.
no ambition. Hope and strength flee
away. Life is burden and sorrow.
| Suicide sometimes follows on the heels of
despair
| What is its meaning?
Nothing less than that the unhappy
victim is suffering from nervous debility
! and that weakness will, unless checked,
cventuate in complete nervous prostra-
tion-in physical and mental wreck. The
! inevitable consequences of Il continued
| condition like this are most fearful No
language of tongue of pen can adequately
describe them. All hope fades unless
recovery is made possible. Unless the
destructive forces can be met and van
unished the sun of Austerlitz must 60
down in the night of Waterloo.
Bat what is the cure5
What will bring health?
No man. among all the learned and
slzilful of the medical discoveries and in
ventors, has done so much IN this great
work for humanity in behalf of these suf-
fering patients, as has DR.. Greene of "a
Temple Place, Boston, Mass. Early in
his extensive practice he realized the vast
and important need Of more thorough
knowledge in this branch of medical
science. and some sure and reliable rem
edics for this class Of patients, and while
others failed he found success while
others CROPPED blindly in old and beaten
maths, he blazed new way and came to
the sunny opening. Through hidden
reccsses, in out-of-the way places in field
and laboratory. by search and invention,
with patience that never tired aud a
courage that did not fslter he worked ont
the glorious results which have given him
his great fame, and humanity cure for
tits most fearful affection,
I His success has far exceeded his fondest
anticipations.
! In the vegetable kingdom, wherein
Divinity has planted healing plants for all
the ills of the flesh he found the things
he needed. and 50 sbilfully has he com
pounded them that wonderful and COM
plese cure has been supplied for this
terrible weakness. Thus is he able to
restore to the afflicted this lost vitality, in
every case, however difficult, or long
standing
So unusual has been his success in
chronic instances that the doctor feels,
and has the right to feel his wonderful
remedies are invincible and equal TO any
emergency They never fail.
Thousands out of whose lives all hope
had well-nigh faded, now rejoice In a