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Southland Times, Issue 1620, 16 August 1872, Page 4

Uliftcel ianeoui. A P A R_A_C O K. To Sufferers. NERVOUSNESS: ITS NATURE AND CUB.E. What is Nervousness ? VARIOUS ANSWERS might be given to this question, according to the constitution and knowledge of the individual. Strong healthy persons, whether medically educated or not, generally regard nervousness as more or less an " imaginary complaint ;" it is sometimes only believed to bo real when the patient is found to be dying or dead. The best nn 3 wer to the question, probably, is this— NERVOUSNESS IS AN UNNATURAL CONDITION OF THE . NERVOUS SYSTEM. Sometimes this unnatural state is accompanied with considerable bodily weakness, loss of flesh and loss of strength ; but in most cases there i 3 in the earlier stages of the disorder no outward sign of weakness. The sufferers are found in both sexes ; they often have the bloom of health upon the cheek ; they are surrounded by kind friends, yet existence to them has no charms, for they feel that they cannot enjoy it. Without intending it, they annoy other people about the merest trifles ; if they encounter some person unexpectedly they feel confused, afraidj and alarmed ; the heart beats violently, the hand shakes when writing, and the whole frame at times experiences a complete tremulousness. The intellect also is sometimes clouded, the memory fails, the judgment becomes indistinct, the will capricious and undecided, the taste vitiated, the imagination broods upon unpleasant topics, the spirits are either very low or very excited, the ordinary duties of life become burdensome, society ia shunned, and business neglected. A STRANGE SPECTACLE,— It is certainly strange, but not the less true, that perfectly sane persons in the prime of life, with firm step and healthy countenance, may occasionally be met with, who, in spite of possessing all the advantages of education, religion, ample means, and kind friends, nevertheless are victims of the nervousness above described ; unhappy themselves, they render other people unhappy. Why is this ? What cause has operated to change the cheerful, active, obliging, unsuspecting, and uncomplaining youth into the unhappy, drowsy, listless, suspicious, and gloomy misanthrope? Many causes, or one cause only, may operate to produce this sad state ? the cause may be either mental or physical, or both combined. ATTEMPTS TO CURE NERVOUSNESS by means of ordinary tonics huve so frequently proved fruitless, that the leading physicians now for the most part recommend hygenic means, such as exercise in the open air, regular habits, sea bathing;, the cold bath friction ; change of air and scene, as in travelling. If all these fail, as they often do, what is to be done ? THE ANSWER will be found by carefully perusing the FOLLOWING WORKNinth Edition, Post Free, Is 4d. NERVOUS~DEB!LITY, ITS CAUSE AND CURE, With Plain Directions for Perfect Eestoration to Health. Applications for a copy of the above work must be accompanied by the amount in New Zealand or other stamps, also a properly directed envelope. Address — CHARLES SENNET, Agent, Brooklyn House, Flag-staff Gardens, Melbourne. SECOND EDITION, NOW READY, Pbice, 5s ; Post, 63. SPERM A TO RE HCEA, IN ITS PHYSIOLOGICAL, MEDICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS, By James Geo. Beaney, F.R.C.S. Formerly Surgeon to the Melbourne Hospita and Her Majesty's Troops during the war in the Crimea. Spermatorrhoea, with impotence and sterility, " are subjects of much greater practical importance than has been conceived by many, and often involve the happiness and perpetuation of families. Yet have they, by a sort of professional prudery, been either entirely overlooked by medical writers or very imperfectly discussed, and thereby relinquished to the irregular practitioner, or to the entirely unqualified empiric. In the present era of high refinement and of luxurious, if not vicious enjoyments, and under the influence of noxious plans and systems of education, instances are very numerous for which medical advice is required for the removal of the morbidly disqualifying conditions about to be considered, but is not resorted to so frequently as it ought to be. Since advice is tlius often necessary, the ability of those from whom the community have a right to expect it, of the most judicious kind, should be equally great in providing it. There is every reason, also, to believe that it would be oftener sought after if the subject were known to be more fully entertained by the duly qualified members of the profession." — (Dr Copland's MEDICAL DldTIONABT, vol. II.) " The only way by which some of the most important iunctionai ailments and aberrant physiological states affecting humanity can be rescued from tho graßp of the most disgusting and villanouß quackery, and treated with benefit to the patient, is by the scientific and conscientious practitioner openly taking them under his own charge." — Lancet, 30th May, 1857. We are therefore glad that Dr Beaney, a Melbourne surgeon of established reputation, has had the courage to grapple with this subject, and by the publication of this work point out a way of escape to sufferers from the injuries on their constitution, and the drain made on their purse, by impudent charlatans. To such sufferers we commend a perusal of Mr Beaney's volume. — Teleg-kaph (Victoria). Agents for New Zealand — MESSRS WISE, Dunedin. DR BRIGHT'S PHOSPHODYNE.— MULTITUDES OF PKOPLE are hopelessly suffering from Debility, Nervous and Liver Complaints, Depression of Spirits, Delusions, Unfitnesa for Business or Study, Failure of Hearing, Sight, and. Memory, Lassitude, Want of Power, &c, whose cases admit of a permanent cure by the new remedy PHOSPHODYNE (Ozonic Oxygen), which at once alJays all irritation and excitement, imparts new energy and life to the enfeebled constitution, and rapidly cures every stage of these hitherto incurable and distressing maladies. 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