Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — Nervousness. [ARTICLE]

Nervousness.

Nine times out of ten a case of nervous prostration is another name for a fit of selfishness (and ought to be so understood), from which the patient speedily recovers as soon as she gets her own way. Nervousness, so called, is sometimes a real 'malady, closely akin to temporary insanity; but as a rule, it is brought on Ljy willful selfishness and brooding over small vexations or wrongs. —Minneapolis Housekeeper.