ses. Nocturnal, or nightly emissions, are not
always experienced in these cases. When they do occur, the debilitating
losses of vital fluid react upon the brain, robbing the victim of
courage and manliness and exciting various phases of morbid fear and
sensitiveness.

Many cases of nervous debility, or exhaustion, are the result of long
continued malarial poisoning, diarrhea, Bright's disease, exhausting
fevers or other debilitating affections. Numerous are the cases in which
the patient is able to trace the origin of the malady back to an attack
of influenza, or grip. An epidemic of the latter disease is sure to be
followed by numerous cases of nervous prostration, or exhaustion.

CARE SHOULD BE EXERCISED.

In all cases, it is necessary to make careful examinations in order to
detect any obscure chronic disease which may exist. In women, nervous
prostration often develops without perceptible cause at the age of
puberty or at the "change of life." Overwork, especially overwork
combined with worry, are fruitful causes of nervous exhaustion in both
sexes.

AN OVERWORKED NERVOUS SYSTEM

is always an exhausted nervous system. The nerve cells have been robbed
of their vital forces. All the nutritive organs of the body suffer from
the lack of nerve control, and the blood-vessels that supply the nerve
centres are not in proper tone. Hence the supply of blood and the action
of the heart are greatly interfered with. Many times, the most
troublesome symptom, early in the disease, is an excessive perspiration
of the hands and feet.

IMPOVERISHED OR POOR BLOOD.

A badly nourished nervous system is irritable. Many of the symptoms of
weakness and lack of nutrition resemble those found in congestion, or
stimulation from excess of blood. Then, too, we find sometimes that
poor, thin, watery blood, not suitable for nourishment although sent in
large amount to the brain, does not properly nourish that organ. There
will still be brain exhaustion, as the nervous structures have lost
their power of absorbing the nutrient materials from the blood which,
being poor in quality, does not vitalize and strengthen the nerve
centres as it should. In such cases thought is an effort and sustained
mental exertion is impossible; the memory is uncertain, and the patient
drowsy. Occasionally, after rest, there may be flashes of brilliancy,
but generally they are brief.

DANGER OF CONTRACTING INTEMPERANCE.

The patient often learns that