The Saint Paul globe., 1903-01-21
HELP AT LAST
FOR THE NERVOUS
Patients Will Can Do Much
Toward Granting
Relief.

"Self-control as cure for nervous dis
eases IS a remedy more efficacious than
medicine at times" said a prominent
Washington practitioner to a Star report
er, and. since its exercise is a matter Of
mere habit will tell you about it.
- Nervousness is a disease, and nervous
persons, especially women, are torture
to themselves, an object Of pity on the
part Of some and Of contempt on the part
of others. Nervousness in itself, nervous
prostration in its various stages, and the
different forms Of nervous fright and ir-
ritability largely result from persons al
lowing themselves to yield to certain
channels of thought which have fear as q
basis.
1T makes slight difference what this
element of fear may be, whether the loss
Of money, Of a beloved one, position, or
what else, the subject nurses this dread
little by little, until except in the case
OF sudden and powerful shock imper-
ceptibly, but with insidious certainty, the
nerve centers feel the strain and gradu-
ally give way. The subject begins to suf-
fer loss Of appetite, sleeplessness inter-
VeneS, loss of flesh necessarily results
and whole train Of evils follows in rapid
sequence, from becoming a burden to
ones self, family, and friends, in going
around in perpetual state Of nervous
rr1tability or melancholia, to complete
collapse in bed from nervous prostration
While patients will yield to medical
treatment in some instances the beneficial
| effects Of sedatives or tonics are often
neutralfzed by the patient refusing to-
exercise Self-control and in nursing the
particular trouble which may be prey
Ing upon the mind. When eXpostulated
with the 1nvariable reply is, L can't help
Persons of nervous temperament and
IN various stages of nervous diseases will
oe astonlshed to see how quickly the
physical will respond to q determine tion
Of the mind not to yield to certain lines
OF familiar thought which constitute the
subjects troubles. They Will find that
the brain may be said to be a crea tura
OF habit, in that certain lines of thought
VIII force themselves, and often at GER
tain times of the day, more prominently
as IN the morning: Endeavor to develop
a feeling of don't care, and 1naintai17
II. once the subject determines to curb
and control thought the brain will be
but surely. when the subject persists as
much as his or her feeble will power al
lows in not thinking about it
To aid in this great fundamental cure
of nervousness and nervous troubles
travel largely conduces, because, as sim
pie as It is when persons travel they
have to do things they do not wish to do.
quent relaxation Of strain Of the brain
cells, more, or less. physical exercise, and
| a change Of air and scene.
GUS troubles are aggravated and pro-
longed by remaining amid familiar sur
roundings and among the immediate
members of the family, where their
weaknesses: often silly and foolish, are
coddled and humored, until the subject
believes himself or herself desperately ill
or finally develops a real disease.
If nervous people who have not reach
ed this stage only knew what nuisance
they are and how readily their irritability
would disappear if they would hold them
selves up to their irrespective vision, de-
termine to control themselves and not al
low their whims, habits, or snappy tenn
| pers to control them, they would become
prettier and stouter women, and stronger
and better men They would find that
| self control is a habit, as it becomes a
habit for women to nag. fret, or show
| temper, and for man TO feel that he Is
perpetually going to lose his position, or
suffer loss in his business.
/ "One must persevere il the self-con-
| troll cure for nervousness but once the
nerves are whipped into mental subsection
! patients gain flesh and strength and won
Ger how they could have beer Sc weak.
/ The legend to be Inscribed upon the
nervous persons banner is short but ef-
fective-dOn't yield!'