Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — Treatment of Nervousness. [ARTICLE]

Treatment of Nervousness.

Almost everybody has a cure for nervousness, and each one, of course, is claimed to be the best. The remedy for nervous depression lies more in the general treatment than in the course of medicine. Simple regular habits; shunning all excess; using moderation in all things; cheerful amusements; plenty of open air and not necessarily violent exercise. Sponging with cold water and brisk rubbing afterwards is desirable. Plunges, showers or other shocks are most undesirable. Indigestion generally accompanies nervous depression, therefore such tonics as aid the appetite, and assimilation may be used; an excellent one is the citrate of quinine and iron, one dram, dissolved in a half pint of water, and a dessert spoonful taken previous to each meal. For special forms of nervousness many remedies are used such as the stronger preparations of iron, the bromide of potassium, valerian with ammonia, or the application of electricity. These, when skillfully administered, are doubtless useful, but recourse to suoh powerful means should never be had except under medical advice. Change, exercise, fresh air, diet or tonics will not cure nervousness derived from “a mind deceased,” or one who gives way to depression. The nervousness must, as far as possible, be disregarded and defied, and the mind prevented from constantly brooding on self.—[Brooklyn Eagle.