NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2086, 16 August 1890, Page 3

NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.

(From the American Rural Home). The too rapid exhaustion of nervous vitality is the s;reat American disceae thht is carry iog off thonsnuds and tens of thousands of our race, the San Francisco News Letter. Why should we mora amenable tot bis trouble than other people 1 We never hear of English or German nervous exhaustion; yet the difficulty is one of every day in this country and all nound us there are victims of it. The tendency in Europe is toward an increase of years ; men are now living to healthier and more advanced ages than ever before. All the great characters who have in recent years occupied the public stage, may be taken to illustrate what we mean. Moltke, Gladstone and Bismarck are conspicuous examples of vigorous minds in healthy bodies at a period of life seldom attained in this country. The obituary column of the London Times shows that it is the commonest thing possible for Englishmen to live to be eighty or ninety years old. The death notices in our own papers seldom afford such evidences of age. Why should there be this difference ?

If a long life and moderate eßJoyment of it were sought bb the chief ends to be realised by American men and women, there isno reasion why they should not go on reasonably and comfortably to glorious old age. Some do. Bat with most of us.weeatin too great a hurry, dine in crowds, think '• a quick as a fljsb," bother ourselves not at all about digestion, which for that reason is nearly always bothering us, sleep only when we must, and awake to renewed tumults of greed and ambitions that fret the flesh off onr bones, use up our vital force, and finally extinguish the vital spark. That is what is the matter with tbe Americans. It is hardly peseible, we suppose, to expect the restless, ambitiouß Americans of this generation to practice the " Goßpel of rest" advocated by Herbert Spenoer. If they would, however, but realise the fact, as many have already done, that by keeping the main purifying organs of the system, the kidneys and liver, in healthy working order by the use of Warner's safe cure there would be very little danger of a general breakdown (the usual result of nervous exhaustion), and more people would live te green old age with unimpaired energies. Note.—The exigencies of life in these Australian colonies are daily beceming more akin to the experiences in tbe above recital of American fast living and its evil influences on the general health of the people. Therefore, the moral to be gained therefrom cannot bt» too forcibly impressed upon public attention.