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 in fonv>ec times. Worse than all, insanity is rapidly on the increase, especially in this colony, as shown by Mr Fayter's "Year Book," from which we take the following figures : — In 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 it is arrived at are thus described by Dr Roose:— Want of tone, sleeplessness, indigestion, and loss of appetite, derangement of the heart, and hypochondriasis. Wjhen this has been reached, he observea, " 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 <jood. Mrs A. Tofft, of Station Hill, Townsville (Q.), 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 wineglassful 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 nervou3 ailments I know of." Mrs Tofft's experience is but the experience of hundreds of others. If you are nervous and 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.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 27
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501PARALYSIS AND INSANITY. Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 27
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