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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-12-23, Page 7DEr, 23, 1802 HEALTH. Our Bodies. 13y the early heretics, who invaded trite Christian olhtwch oven before the Apostles left it, all matter was looked upon an 011. aentially evil. Many parsing believed it to be the work of malignant opiate. Somewhat later, mon sought to purify the soul by breaking clown the body—beat. log It, half -starving it, exposing it to the heats ofsnnunor iced the cold of winter, and subjecting it to every form of hard usage, Filthy and half brutalized hermits were venerated as the choicest of saints. Theme has )leen. a vast change since those days, The body is looked npon as the lit companion of the soul, Even its appotito8, in their proper sphere and within thor nor. mai limits, aro regarded with high respect, nor merely as oontribntois to our pleasure, but as essential to our highest welfare. Wo insist on it as it vital truth that the mind can do its beet only as it is ministered to by a sound body. Even within the present century, a sehol. ar was known by his pale fees, feeble limbs and dyspeptic rtoop—joint product of the famous " midnight oil," foul air and flabby muscles. Now Ivo say, "Nature isnot to be cheated at any point.' Instead of proudly pushing a precocious child in his studios, we bold hint book be- hind his hates, and seek to restore the harmonious balance of his brain with his body by an abundance of pure air, nourish- ing food and zestful play. Wo thus save him from becoming a dullard or an imbecile. Insanity was once looked on as the work •of demons. It is now regarded as a purely physical infirmity, perhaps inherited from those who had somehow violated physical law, or Induced by our own transgression. Even she terrible depression into which good mon sometimes fall, are now seen to bo the result of disturbed physical states. Perhaps in nothing is the change more marked than in the present attention to physical culture, A national association for its promotion has been at work among us for five years. At its last annual meeting in Boston, the leading universities were rep- resented by their respective professors of physical culture. improvements are constantly being pushed, and gymnastic teachers find steady •employment. The female sex is opining into the movement. Some young women have al• ready fitted themsevelcs to do good in schools and colleges. Many aro seeking :similar preparation. Eruptive Diseases. These include smallpox, varioloid, sear - let fever, measles, chicken pox and a dio- cese called German measles. The apeoific ,organism or germ of none of these diseases has as yet bowl discovered but it is almost .certain that they are all caused by a micro. -organism. Says Dr. Canfield in "The Mother's Nursery Guide ": When the fever which precedes all these diseases, and which is usually high in childean, breaks out, it is impossible for any ono whether physician or not, to say what the disease will be until the eruption has appeared. When the eruption has appeared, rho child should be kept apart from the rest of the family according to the directions of the •attending physician, and all other children in the house or family bo kept from school and away from others. The worst disease after smallpox is soar. lot fever. Smallpox should never moue and rarely does where vaccination is properly performed. The poisonous part of these diseases undoubtedly lies in the scales of skin which peel off turd spread the disease if they aro allowed to fly about. Those who come iu contact with scarlet -fever patients should keep as for away from healthy persons as possible. The physician, nurse and mother are all that need to see the sick child and whoa 1 hese leave the room, they should go out in the air, or change the outer garment befhre going near others. Of all diseases smallpox oan effectually be prevented by proper vac. oination, measles is usually not very serious but scarlet fever is the disease most to be dreaded. Fortunately it is not so clanger. ous unless the contact is close while measles is contagious at a long range. In all these diseases the scales of the skin contain the contagious principle and the skin of bhe child should be kept well anoint- ed to keep these scales from flying about. After the disease is over all the clothes and everything in the room as well as the room itself should be thoroughly disinfect- ed in the way laid down by the family phy- sician or the health officer. Upon the mother should be impressed that it is very dangerous to keep clothes of children who have died with scarlet fever, for they may give the disease to other children years after. Nervousness and Its Cure. Dr. Bilsinger, in an article on the euro of neauasthenia, or modern norvousnes, which is pervading all classes of society in an in- ,0reasing degree, insists that each individual has the means, to a oertain extent, in his ,own hands, of alleviating by a rational mode of life the general harm to which modern roan is exposed under the influences which contribute to nervousness. But the major, icy of people seem to prefer to remain ignor. ant, and more or less gradually impair their nervous systems by certain special indul. genoos, abuse of stimulants, too early and excessive use of tobacco amok°, eto, Among the early symptoms of derangement from these causes are crossness, a tendency to be overcome by trifles or a sensibil- ity to nervous disturbances, But in ap. parently critical eases a surprisingly favor- able result may be reached by the exercise of a little patience, combined with a proper and intelligently directed general hygiene. Nervous patients must school themselves religiously to avoid as much as possible all drog remedies, Benumbing narootios should especially be foresworn, no matter how seductive they may appear at first, for in the end they to a oortainty do more harsh than good, Of immensely greater value than drugs to nervous patients are the natural factors of pure air, light, water, quiet and exorcise. Fresh air, and especially moun- tain air, 15 invaluablo, and dance indulged in withoutfoar of excess. The same, however, can not bo said of water. This most sover- eign of all remedies has come into discredit in nervous diseases because of its flagrant abuse. A too indiserfntinato application of water is a double poison to nervous patients. On the other hand, combined with the air erre and certain respiratory and motsoular exorcises, as well as massage, it is of the greatest benefit. Gardenia is ono of the host and sbnplostottrosfor disordered nerves, and an arm and chests strengthener, which expands the attest, regulates the activity of the heart and strengthens the tnflsahes, can bo used with groat advantage, provided the exercise is taken in a well -aired room. The diet shoill be light, slightly stimulating 1002(1 ftoqnoihly 01101150(11 ala Ong soon, frnib, greet vegetables and mild and grain dishes are rnaommeldod. /ignitable mental treat - should go hand in hand with hygienic — and dietotio measures, and above every thing, patience and root Hurst be insisted Upon, Neoeseity Pox Pastilnos. All Hien feel the necessity of beguiling the hours ; the versiost sloth will soon full out of itis senses if he does nothingbutcount the ticks of the °IOaks ;so man hos invent. ed for his solaco en infinite variety of defib. orate paslimos—artificial work of head of baud—•whiolt lull his perception of the slip. ing sands as well ns protluotive labor dons that of the artisan. The energy which has been cited to show that there are no gigolo of dourepitude or senility In the world— socleby—mankind as a meas—ie nowhere more manifeet than in the elabore to and cost- ly preparations for amusement—for sheer pastitne—which ensues as soon as people get respite from the task of bread -winning, A notable and somewhat unsatisfactory fea- ture in this mimicry of work is that the pro. fessional is coming more std more to the front, to rho discouragement of the amateur. To expel in billiards, in cricket, in golf, tennis, or any of the myriad games played with balls of various size and tnatorial,lnore time must be filched from serious business than can by any means bo afforded by those who have to earn a living, To hemamapm. fiolent in the spot' -stroke postulates an op- prenticeship at least as severe and as pro- longed as that of any skilled handioraft,and the extraordinary perfection attained by those classed as "gentlemen" cricketers, as distinguished from " players," implies that for thorn it is the business of life, and not mere relaxation. The tendency of all games, in this age of wealth and leisure, is to turn players rube athletes, and in those, as in aal'l0lts w ""k, "ano.teur" is synonynlouswith " immature." Yet games are of such excellent use in themselves, not only as recreation from strain, but as safety valves for the danger. nus or mischievous forces in human nature, diverting the thoughts from unhealthy ten. denotes and chastening the frames into sym- metry and grace, that it were a pity if room were not kept for people who can never aspire to professional proficiency. They are potent safe -guards against two of the most deplorable deformities to which human nature is liable—dullness in the hard - worked and vanity in the idle ; each of which brings many a man and woman into a tragic degree of ridicule. Some young people are so constituted as to feel no inclin- ation to games, but very much the re- verse ; their minds are of such fiber as to retain elasticity without having recourse to systematic diversion. That they are not characters of small capacity which exhibit this trait may be shown by quoting two. well•known instances of men highly distin- guished in widely different careers, The Duke of Wellington could never be induc- ed, when at school, to throw any spirit into t110 sports of other boys; he preferred wan- dering about alone to the engrossing occu- pation of foot ball or cricket. Rousseau consumed days and nights in close study in an attempt to master the game of chess ; but, though he persevered fn repeated en- deavors, they all came to nothing, for as often as he sat down to a game, all that the had learned went out of his head. But such instances are exceptional, and in most cher. actors hard work, unrelieved by competi. time games, is apt to produce "groeviness" —and superfluous leisure, stupidity. It is difficult to imagine a young woman fond of lawn tennis falling a prey to the morbid self-cousciousnoos which consumed the Com - tease de Seneeterre, whom Tallemant des Beaux describes as a beautiful but very foolish woman. One of her fancies was to have pillows of every size in her bed—even for her thumbs—for she prided herself on her boantiful hands and slept with them open to keep the joints small. Athletes, it is true, are peculiarly prone to vanity, but, the form that vine assuutes in them is that of the pride of life, by many degroes more pardonable than the deliberate self-love of indolence. It is a long descent from games which exercise Mind or body to those of pare chance, yet these have as firm a hold upon human lnolination as if they possessed merit in themselves. No more ptteousimplosion can be made on a mind capable of reflection than is left by a visit to the table at Monte Carlo. Hour after hour, clay after day, year after year, the same crowds gather round them, blind to the beauty of sapphire son, and glorious sunshine, content to swel- ter and scramble and wrangle --for what? Well, they aro under the thrall of one of two motives—two deplorable motives—one the lowest, the other the saddest that can bo oonceived. For the first is avarice—of all lust the most obscene, of all passions the most disastrous. Valor, self -devotion, truth, humanity, may (so complex is human nature) coexist with much that is evil in a character, but avarice taints the whole bring; unlike other desires, it is never satis- fied, it is never at rest; nothing swept oan flow from the source which it has polluted. Let there be no mistake or palliation abort this: Avarice is the primary lure to the Casino. Take away the gold, and who would bo so childish as to play for counters and sweetmoabe? The other and anbaidiary motive which c.ollecte a crowd round the tables is the desire of idle men to rid them- selves of What most precious possession, time, wh1oh, once it is gone, can never be recalled, the loss of which is ever the cause of fruitless regret. " I{nowledge comes, but wisdom' terries:" but hero even knowledg a ae001a t0 be set at contempt. Crowds of educated people, with ready access to all the stores of knowledge laid up through the laborious ages for pres- ent use, Dann the contemptible creed of luck. Never was there a god so false, never one before whotneo many bow the knee in profound and ignorant faith. It would be lost labor to combat the belief—almost uni- versal and wholly ineradicable among gam. biers in an Mountable influence upon human occasion, capable of being offended or propitiated. It differs in no respect from idolatry ; for civilized, well-educated people behave just as the pagan sloes in regard to the Great Spirit, the souls of his ancestors or the defied powers of nature. It is, in fact, a kind of lusorial animism. "Don't disappoint your luck I"—the gambler's car- dinal precept—implies the same dread of offending a powerful being, impatient of Blight, as still moves the inhabitants of Tin• novelly, in rho Indo -china, to lay brandy and cheroots on the grave of a certain British officer Whom they hated and feared on account of his tyrannioai rule over them, believing that his spirit can only be kept from mischief by being plied with the same little luxuries he loved whon alive, "T.he Lord thy God is a jealous Lord" is dogma not peculiar to Jewish worship ; it is the idea uppermost In ell toligion. 13ohool Ventilation. Mauna—•"Is your now school well vents. later' ?" Litho Girl•-" 0111' room isn't, but the room next to ours is." " Ituw do you know?'" " The children in that rosin all has colds in their heads," --[Dee Moines Graplhie, THE BRUSSELS POST. THE GRAVEYARD Or TUE 00EAN• Tile Urea Se rgesaaOra '1 bat Is the Ven Ire 02' the Altoona currents. For await' years past the llydrographio Boman at Washington has been brylsg to acquire a more intimate knowledge of the movement of the waters of the ocean, and a great number of bottles, containing mossagee and securely corked, 11500 been dropped overboard by vessels. Many of these drove floated thousands of miles before they were picked up, and while some were washed upon native and:foreign shores, otter's have found their way Into the great Sargasoo Sea, 100001 the courses Oilcan by those different bottles It has been found that the ocean currents move around in a vast circle, Those which wore dropped overboard on the Amoriean coast took a northerly course, while those on the Euro- pean side floated toward the south, Bottles dropped overboard in the north Atlantic started toward the northeast and those from the African or Spanish coast floated almost directly west until they reached the West India Islands, The general directions of the currents wore ihneascorbained, show- ing that the waters anted upon by winds and currents circulated round like a pool. In all pools floating objects ate quickly cast outside of the revolving onrrents, or they are carried with thein in their Weenier route for some time, until they aro washed nearer the centre or side of the pool. The bottles that wore forced outside of the cur. rents of the ocean were oast Dom Tun 5120/205 of some country, but therm whioli wore work- ed toward the °entre eventually found their way in the call' waters of the Sargasso Sea. Hero they remain peacefully until picked up by some vessel, or until some storm casts them back fnbo the great pool. Vessels very rarely visit the great sea in the middle of the ocean, but occasionally they are driven there by storms or adverse winds. Strange eights meet the gaze of the sailors at such times. Wonderful stories —partly true and partly falso—have been told by sailors returning from o forced trip to the vast Sargasso Sea. Tho surface of the sea is covered with floating wreaks, spars, seaweed, boxes, fruits, and a thou. sand other innumerable articles. It is the great repository or storehouse of the ocean, and all things which do not sink to the bot- tom or are not washed upon the shores am carried to this centre of the sea. When one considers the vast number of wrecks on the ocean, and the quantity of floating material that is thrown overboard, a faint idea of the wreckage in the Sargasso Sea may be conceived. Derelicts, or abandoned vessels, frequent- ly disappear in mysterious ways, and no accounts are given of them for years by pass. ing vessels. Then suddenly, years later, they appear again in some well -travelled route to the astonishment of all. The wrecks ore covered with mould and green slime, showing the long, L0N11002111 \OYA'11t which they Have passed through, It is gen- erally supposed that such dereliota have been swept into the centre of the pool and remained in the Sargasso Sea until finally cast out by sumo unusually violent storm. The life hi this sea is interesting. Solitary and alone the acres of waters, covered With the debris, stretch out as the vast graveyard of the ocean, seldom being visited by vessels or human beings. Far from all trading routes of vessels, the sight of a sail or steam vessel is something unusual. The fishes of the sea formthethief life of these watery solitudes, Attracted by the vast quantities of wrookage floating in the sea, and also by the gulfweed on which many of them live, they swarm around in groat num- bers. The smaller fishes live in the intricate avenues formed by the seaweed, and the more ferocious denizens of the deep coma hither to feed upon the quantities of small fish. in this way the submarine life of the Sargasso Sea is made interesting and lively, The only life overhead is that made by a few sea birds, which occasionally reach the solitudes of this mid -ocean cemetery. A few of the long flyers of the air penetrate to the very middle of the ocean, but it is very rarely that this occurs. Some have been known to follow vessels ae'oss the ocean, keeping at a respectful distance from the stern. Other birds have been swept out to sea by storms, and have finally sought ref- uge in the Sargasso Sea. Still others taking refuge on some derelict, have been gradually carried to the same mid•ooean scone. There is sufficient food floating on the surface, or to be obtained from the fishes which live among the forests of seaweed, to support a large colony of birds. It is surmised that many of those found in the sea hove inhabit. ed those regions for years, from choice or necessity, Birds swept out there by storms would not cars to venture the long return trip to land, and finding an abundance of food and wrecks on which to rest and rear their young, they might easily become eon - tented with their strange lot. Just how far the strong -winged sea birds can fly without resting is all conjectural, but it is doubtful if many of thorn would undertake such a long journey seaward with no better pros. peels ahead than dreary wastes of water. The Cholera and 'Typhus Bill in Russia The St, Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Oh 001010 telegraphs :— Full returns of the number of victims oar• tried off during the lost outbreak of cholera, as far as has been ascertained, have just been published, The total cholera mortal• icy is said to amount to 220,112. The fauune•striokeu districts of the Caucasus sooms to have suffered most. Ian Astrachan there wore 7873 deaths, in Voronesh 9468, in Viatica 4440, in Samara 14,962, in Sara- toff 18,982, in Tamboff8039, in the district, of the Don 17,761, and iu the Caucasus 63,• 211,(1. One of the saddest features of this terrible hili is the mortality amongst the doctors. During the past year half of the country physicians aro said to have succumb- ed to spotted typhus alouo, not counting those that died from the cholera and other diseases, the direct result of the fanzine. The number of peasants who -died from typhus will probably never be accurately known, bull atm assured by physicians that this drseeee claimed more victims than the cholera. No Notion to Telling the Business he was in. A lawyer trying to servo his client by throwing suspioton on a Witness in the case, in the course of oross•oxamination said : "Yon have admitted that you were at the prisoner's house every night during this time?" "Yes, sir," replied the witness. "Worn you and he interested in any business together 2" "Yes," answered the roan unhesitatingly ; ,y 8 0 . 1, "All 1 Now, will you be good 080115h to tell us 1101%, end to what extent and whet the nature of this business was in which yon and he were interested?" "Well, I have no objection totellinqq," was the reply. "I was courting his daughter," e CURIOSITY COLUMN, Wondrous Mechanism, Ata hate fitly in Brittany, France, a monk front the h'rieslbc Monastry exhibited a pluiu•looking table with an inlaid chess board on ito imams). The inventor, or any• ono so disposed, sets the pieced for a game and then sits along at one side of the table. However oattiously he plays he le frequent. ly checkmated by the pesos tram tho op. posits side, which move automatically across the board, No matter how scientifically the player plays the ghost -moved pioees frequently cone out ahead, No mechanism is apparent ; to all intent the table is a solid board, Remarkable Oensus Ooinoidenoe• In 1850, a few weeks before the census taker began his enumeration of the people of Elm Grove, W, Va., the city or town authorities counted their own population preparatory to filing articles of mcorpora- bfon. The following fs the remarkable re- sult 1 Number of males over 21 years of age, 148 ; number of Insoles under 21 years of age, 148 ; umber of fcmalee over 10 years of ago, 148; number of females tinder 10 years of age, 148. Power of Sunlight. Experiments by meana of photographic plates in the Mediterranean Sea prove that on the middle of a bright day In Sumner the rays of the 500 do not penetrate the waters of that sea to a depth of more titan 150 fathoms, In Saptenber the distance to which light penetrates to an observable ex- tant is much reduced, the impressions on the plate at 160 fathoms at that season not being as great as that made by starlight. 'Why We Sink in "Qnioksand•" Quicksand is composed chiefly of small particles of mica, mixed largely with water. Mina is so smooth that the little fragments slip upon each other with the greatest facil- ity, so that any heavy body which displac- es them will sink and continuo sinking until solid bottom is reached. With common sand it is different, It is ragged and angu- lar, a weight having a tendency only to crowd the particles into a more compact and solid 'lass. The Pitch Lake of Trinidad. One of the most remarkable lakes on the earth's surface 1s situated at Tar Point, on tlho Island of Trinidad, and boars the sug- gestive name of Pitoh Lake, At first view the surface of this "lake, which is not a lake," gives one the impression that it is a large body of placid water, but a closer examination proves ib to bo a vast plain covered with hard and hardening pitch. Winter, or rather in the Winter months, the surfaoo of this lake is perfectly smooth and of a consistency sufficient to bear any weight, It is not adhesive, although it re- ceives, in part, the impression of the foot, and can be trodden upon without giving the surronndlugs any tremendous motion. In the Summer season this characteristic is changed, the surface being much more yielding, sometimes ap preaching a state of extreme fluidity. Tho main body of this curious lake is about three miles in circumference, and at the ex• theme southern edge where centuries of ex. posers have hardened it until it can be easily quarried like asphaltum, is about 200 feet deep. A. Wonderful Malformation. A friend of the compiler of this depart- ment writes as follows from Round Valley, Ida. "While at Rouncl Valley last Satur- day a local taxidermist invited me sop to his 'den' for the purpose of seeing one of Idaho's most remarkable monstrosities—a slheep thatis not a sheep by considerable. It was bred by James Johnson, of this viobtity, and first saw the light of day in the Spring of 188:1. During life, and before my friend, the knight of the scalpel, got hold of it, it 'ran' with the other sheep on the Johnston ranch—that is if a creature which ought to have had four feet and legs could bo said to 'run' ou two. This curious beast had, or has, but two legs, both on the hinder part of the body and when alive walked erect after the fashion of the Aus- tralian kangaroo. The legs and tail are as smooth as those of a dog, not showing the least trace of wool, The head, which hs as woolly as that of any Round Valley mut- ton, has but one eye and that is set cyclops fashion in the center. This centrally lo• cared optic seems to have been so set as to supply in a measure at least the place of the missing eye, being at the apex of ebony ridge which rune between ears to neer the nostrils thus making it possible for his sheepship to see on both sides as readily as if he had had two oyes properly situated. The neck of the thing is unlike both the head and the hinder pats as to coverings, being adorned with perfect teachers, each overlapping the other as snnontilly as do those of the guinea fowl, which they much resemble. The shoulders, belly and plane where the forelegs should be are as woolly as the heed, the wool extending book to where the fine, smooth, doglike hairs begin. If placed in odime museum I believe that it would be a greater card than a real mei, maid or sea serpent.'_ A House In a Bottle. Some years ago a blind boy residing in Chicago oonstruotod a miniature house la - side an ordinary four-ounoo bottle. The building was made tip of forty pioees of wood, all nasty fitted and glued together. As wonderful as this may seem, it is only a pact of the wonders of thio sightless lad, After oontpleting the house and giving it "finishing touches" to his heart's content, Inset about fastening the cork in the bottle but bow he a000mploshod the startling feat Ls a mystery to this clay. Inside the bottle below the nock, a small wooden peg isdriven through the cork, the ends of the peg extend- ing far enough on either side to prevent the cork being removed from the bottle without its lower end being torn off. The boy Min - self is unable to explain how he a000mplisb. od this last std most astonishing piece of handiwork. The "Laughing Plant" of Arabia. Palgrave, fn his great work on Central and Eastern Arabia, mentions a carious plant of that country, the sends of whheh nrodueo effects analogous to those of laughs. g gas, Those seeds grow 1n pods three in each pod, are perfectly black in eoho' and about rho size of common soup beans. If pulverized and taken in small Closes those seeds have a most remarkable abet. Tho person to whom the dose has been adnl1nis- tornd soon begins to laugh very beteterously and to sing and dance m a truly idiotlo fashion. ITo soon falls asleep and when ho awakens remembers lathing of the demon• stratiol male while under the influence of ' . the singular dime. c Fifiy-soar old Tok:by oasts from $15 bo $60 a'lotto, THE GItEi T ;1:UL ; MEMO t os�---•-esacum��.1� .5 --`-•ter.. er Cup The Most Astonishing Medical Discovery o the Last One Hundred Years. It is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar.. r It is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk: This wonderful Nervine Tonic has only recently been introduced into this country by the proprietors and manufacturers of the Great Smith American Nerviee Tonic, and ,yet Itsreat value as a curative - agent g I Iver agent ]las long been lrnown by a few of the most learned physicians, who have not brought its merits and value to the knowledge of the general public. This medicine has completely solved the problem of the cure of indi- gestion, dyspepsia, and diseases of the general nervous system. It is, also of the greatest value in the cure of all forms of failing health from whatever cause. It perforins this by the great nervine tonic qualities which it possesses, and by its great curative powers upon: the digestive organs, the stomach, the diver and the bowels. No remedy compares with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder and strength- ener of the life forces of the human body, and as a great renewer of a broken-down constitution, It is also of more real permanent value in the treatment and cure of diseases of the Lungs than any consumption remedy ever used on this continent. It is a marvelous cure for nerv- ousness of females of all ages, Ladies who are approaching the critical period known as change in life, should not fail to use this great Nervine Tonic, almost constantly, for the space of two or three years. It will carry them safely over the clanger. This great strengthener and cura- tive is of inestimable value to the aged and infirmbecause its great energizing properties wilt give thein a new hold on life. It will add ten or fifteen years to the lives of many of those who will use a half dozen/ bottles of the remedy each year, l IT IS A GREAT REMEDY FOR THE CURE OF Nervousness, Nervous Prostration, Nervous Headache, Sick Headache, Female Weakness, Nervous Chills, Paralysis, Nervous Paroxysms and Nervous Choking, Hot Flashes, Palpitation of the Heart Mental Despondency, Sleeplessness, St. Vitus' Dance, Nervousness of Females, Nervousness of Old Age, Neuralgia, Pains in the Heart, Pains in the Back, Failing Health, Delicate and Scrofulous Children, \v Summer t"omplaint of Infants. All these and many other complaints cured by this wonderful Nervine Tonic, E ms'<1>ITS 1 ISFASiS® As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been able to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very pleasant and harmless in all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate individual. Nine -tenths of all the ailments to which the human family is heir are dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired diges- tion. When there is an insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood, a general state of debility of the brain, spinal marrow, and nerves is the result. Starved nerves, like starved muscles, become strong when the right kind of food is supplied; and a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear as the nerves recover. As the nervous system must supply all the power by which the 'vital forces of the body are carried on, it is the first to suffer for want of perfect nutrition. Ordinary food does not con- tain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutriment necessary to repair the wear our present mode of living and labor imposes upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be supplied. This South American Nervine has been found by analysis to contain the essential elements out of which nerve tissue is formed. This accounts, for its universal adaptability to the cure of all forms of nervous de- rangement. Broken Constitution, Debility of Old Age, Indigestion and Dyspepsia, Heartburn and Sour Stomach, Weight and Tenderness in Stomach, Loss of Appetite, Frightful Dreams, Dizziness and Ringing in the Ears, ' Weakness of Extremities and Fainting, Impure and Impoverished Bloods Boils and Carbuncles, Scrofula, Scrofulous Swellings and Ulcers, Consumption of the Lungs, Catarrh of the Lungs, Bronchitis and Chronic Cough Liver Complaint, Chronic Diarrhoea, CRdwroRDsvnmH, Inn,, Aug. 20, '86. 7b the Great South American dled,tine Go.r 05011 Gsarrs:—I desire to say to you that I have suffered for many years with a very serious disease of the stomach and nerves. I tried every medicine I could hear of, but nothing done me any appreciable good until I was advised to try your Great South American Nervine Tonle and Stomach and Liver Cure, and since using several bottles of It I must say that I am sur- prised at i is wonderful powers to sure thostom- ach and general nervous system. If everyone Jmew the value of this remedy as Ido you would not bo able to supply the demand. J, A. MAenus, Ex -Tress, Montgomery Co, RsnsceA Waxman, of nrowasvalley, Ind.,. says : " I bad been in a distressed condition for three years from Nervousness, weakness of the Stomach, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, until my. health was gone, I had been doctoring con- stantly, with no relief. I bought ono bottle of South Americas Nervine, which done me more good than any 050 worth of doctoring I ever did 1nmy life. I would advise every weakly per- son enson to use this valuable and lovely remedy; a few bottles of it has cured me completely. 0 consider it the grandest medicine In the world,"J A SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITAS' DANCE OR CHOREA. CRAWFiORDSVILLE, IND,, June 22, 1887. - My daughter, eleven years old, was severely afflicted with St. Vitus' Dance or Chorea. We gave her three and one-half bottles of South American Ner- vine and she is completely restored. 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