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Southland Times, Issue 1631, 10 September 1872, Page 4

.Miscellaneous. A P A R_A_D 0 X To Sufferers. NESVOtTSNESS. ITS NATURE AND CURE. 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 be real when the patient is found to be dying or dead. The best answer to the question, probably, is this— NERVOUS NESS 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 j } but in most cases there is 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 can" not enjoy it. Without intending it, they annoy other people about tke Barest trifles • if they encounter some person unexpectedly they feel confueed, afraid, 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 is 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 thern- ■ selves, 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, i listleas, suspicious, and gloomy misanthrope? Many causes, or one cause only, may operate to produce this Bad state ? the cause may be either mental or physical, or both combined. ATTEMPTS TO CURE NERVOUSNESS by means of ordinary tonics have 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 w iU be found by carefully perusing the FOLLOWING WOESNinth Edition, Post Free, Is 4d. ITS CAUSE AND CURE, With Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration 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 I envelope. Address — • ! CHARLES SENNET, Agent, j Brooklyn House, Flag-staff Gardens, Melbourne. SECOND EDITION, NOW EEADY, Peioe, 5s ; Post, 6a. SPEEMATOERHffIA, j IS ITS I PHYSIOLOGICAL, MEDICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS, By James Geo. Beaney, F.R.C.3. 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, a»d often involve the happines3 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 tho irregular practitioner, or to the entirely unqualified empiric. In the present era of high refinement and of luxurious, if not vicious enjoyments, an J 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 thus often necessary, the ability of those from whom the community have a right to expect it, of the most judicious kind, Bhould 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 DioTIOUABY, vol. II.) " The only way by which some of the most important functional ailments and aberrant physiological states affecting humanity can be rescued from tho grasp of the most disgusting and villanous quackery, and treated with benefit to the patient, is by the Bcientific and conscientious practitioner openly taking them under his own charge." — Lakcet, 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 sulferers 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. — Teleqeaph (Victoria). Agents for New Zealand — MESSES WISE, Punedin. IMMIGRATION NOTICE. JT)ERSONS resident in the Province can nomiJT nate their friends, under the General Government scheme of Immigration on the following terms : — If cash paid in advance, for each statute adult £5 0 0 Or bills payable 30 days after arrival of person nominated ... ... ... 710 0 Children under 12 years 2 10 0 Single women between 16 and 35, and girls, under charge of their parents, between 12 and 16 Free All information and forms of application supplied at the Immigration Office, InvercargiU, or by Mr T. Daniel, in Eiverton. "WALTER H. PEAESON, ' Immigration Officer. I Immigration Office, July 1 1872. *