Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-06-12
CURE FOR JEALOUSY.
The Undoubted Product of an I'm
derfed Brain.
DR.. DE FLEURY SAYS IT'S A DISEASE
Physical Conditions Is the Subject Which.
He Says, Are Responsible for all
the Trouble.

If we are to believe the recent asser-
tion of DR.. Maurice dc Fleury,a French
physician of some eminence, jealousy
is disease. dependent on physical CON
ditions. and amenable to physical
methods of treatment. That this will
be welcome news to the wives of jeal-
ous husbands and the sweethearts of
jealous lovers goes without saying.
Instead of tears, protestations and ap-
peals to heaven, there will shortly be
calmness and the mild reminder:
Robert, you have forgotten your pills
this morning." or John. l told you
what would happen if you neglected
your jealousy medioinep
Or, to carry the idea another step
further, fences and walks will soon be
placarded with such adjurations as
these: Take Jackson's s Joy Bringers
for Jealousyr' while "Smith's Sus-
picion- -Soothers' and Robinsons'
Anti Green Eye Pellets" will be lauded
on every billboard Testimonials
will stare us in the face from the pages
of the advertising columns, accom-
panied by twin pictures of sallow.
fierce-eyed wretch and fat and placid
man, labeled: Before Taking and
after Taking"
After all, the homoepathists have
always maintained that emotions
could be controlled by drugs, and the
old-fashioned practitioners used to pre-
scribe regularly for melancholy, grief,
disappointment and anger. For this.
they were made the targets of much
cheap wit, but they We're far ahead Of
their time. The medical profession is
coming more and more to recognize
the fact that mental states and condi-
tions all have their physical aspects
and may often be produced or allayed
by physical means.
DIR. de Fleury assures us that the
jealous man has always brain that is
insufficiently nourished-he is in the
early stages of that common form of
insanity in which IA man is subject to
the hallucination of being followed by
enemies; he is morbidly suspicious to
the last degree. He may be suffering
from incipient brain disease, but very
likely his malady is the result of tenn
porary conditions; he is overtired, he
has been weakened by long Illness or
he has been ON an exhausting spree.
The peculiar weakness that the grip
leaves behind is responsible for more
Jealousy, so says this French authority,
than any amount of really justifable
suspicion.
The French savant says that true
jealousy is never the result of knowl-
edge, put of doubt. The jealous man
suspects; he does not know; hence this
suspicious, weak state of mind is the
very thing to foster his jealousy.
Can jealousy be cured? Certainly it
can; that is, it may be treated with
the same chances of success, as any
other ailment. And here is the justi-
fication for insisting ON the physical
character of jealousy. 1t will be hard
for most people to accept what DR.. de
Fleury says.
He points out that defective brain
nourishment can be met by stimulants
and nutritives. Take man who is un-
reasonably jealous and irritable early
in the morning and give him a good
breakfast or cup of coffee, and ten to
one he will sit down and talk the
matter over sensibly with you. Ac-
cording to DIR. de Fleury. all jealous
persons have sensible intervals, the
malady being in some degree periodic
one. just like chills and fever. In
short, DR.. de Fleury's treatment in
cludes everything that can be done to
give strength and confidence to the
jealous wretch, to inspire him with
sense of his own power-to make
man of him. Exactly how and by
what drugs this is to be done the
French authority does not expressly say
But there is where the ingenuity of
the versatile and Inventive patent
medicine man will come in. We are
ON the high road to the abolition of
disease. May it not be possible that
branch of the same road leads to the
abolition also of disagreeable and an
noying states of mind +? Cheer up, ye
despondent, ye men with blues and
dumps, ye wrathful, ye sad, ye jeal-
ousl Science will compress tablets for
you. all nicely put up in bottle!