LOSING NERVOUS ENERGY.
Everybody has some store of nervous energy. Wlien work or worry without surhcient rest exhausts this store, a condition results that medical men call neurasthenia.
it is. commonly met with in those who have cared for sick relatives, and business men who worry over their affairs and neglect to take proper rest. Women who work beyond their strength, anyone who has too much excitement and tftO little rest may show the symptoms. The signs are clear. lour complexion becomes °pale, you imagine unpleasant, things, your brain insists on working when you want to go to sleep. Sometimes you are, melancholy. Things' that used to please you no longer do so. Constipation is usually present. You worry about yourself and your work, and cannot forget your anxieties. No doctor can cure neurasthenia; you have to do it yourself. First, worry less and don't overtax your strength; then begin Dr Williams' Pink Pills for pale people, for they supply new blood to feed your worn-out nerves, and so steadily build up your health. Never accept any substitute 'at shops. The Dr Williams' Medicine Co., ix 845 G.P.0., Wellington, has publisheu a free book on nervous disorders that contains a chapter on neurasthenia, in which the symptoms are fully described and the correct treatment given. The booklet is free on request.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3347, 8 May 1918, Page 47
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