PARALYSIS AND INSANITY.

Bruce Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 1932, 14 February 1888, Page 4

PARALYSIS AND INSANITY.

Human existence is no longer a measured march, but a rapid race. It leaves little time for rest and none for reflection. Our minds and bodies are like so many engines, with the furnaces always alight and the machinery always working under high pressure. Now and then it breaks down and, as we hear of this or that person being carried off by apoplexy, or disabled by paralysis, we pause for a moment to utter some expression of compassion or sorrow, and then resume the wild gallop in which he participated, and by which he suffered. Our very recreations belie the epithet. They are pursued with such energy that they become very hard work. Even the " duties of society " performed by women, whose circumstances exempt them from the necessity of making any other exertions, are laborious in the extreme, and the wear and tear of fashionable life is responsible for a disease — neurosis — which was unknown iv former times. Worse than all, insanity is rapidly on the increase, especially in this colony, as was shown by Mr. Hayter's Year Book, from which we take the following figures : — ln 1861 there was one lunatic in every 819 persons ; in 1871 there was one in every 392 persons ; in 1881 there was one in every 304 persons. Now, sustained mental excitement and tension must be reckoned among the predisposing causes of lunacy, and the stages by which ifc is arrived at are thus described by Dr. Roose : — Want of tone, sleeplessness, indigestion, and loss of appetite, derangement of the heart, and hypochondriasis. When this has been reached, he observes, the " border lands of insanity are within measurable distance, even if they have not already been reached." But what are we to do ? says one. We reply, live more leisurely, and aid tired nature with Warner's safe nervine. No one can be well who does not enjoy sound sleep. Warner's safe nervine is not a narcotic, it is as harmless as water, and will, if you are suffering from nervousness, headache, etc., do you a vast amount of good. Mrs. A. Tofffc, of Station Hill, Townsville CQ.), says *— " For the past four years during the hot season I suffered greatly with giddiness, violent throbbing in the head, and down the spine, causing great weakness and irritation in the system. About three months ago, when suffering severely, I took Warner's safe nervine, in teaspoonful doses every two hours, in half a wine gl tssful of water, and found immediate relief. I can safely say that it is the most simple, and, at the same time, the most powerful remedy for soothing all nervous complaints I know of." Mrs. Tofft's experience is but the experience of hundreds of others. If you are nervous aud sleepless, and continually growing worse, unless aided to health, you are on the sure road to paralysis, or the mad-house. Calmly think over this matter, and decide at once to " right about wheel," and pursue the road to renewed health and strength.