Nervous Diseases. See articles in this work on Alcoholism, Aphasia, Apoplexy, Appendicitis, Brain, Chorea, Cretinism, Delirium, Delirium Tremens, Epilepsy, Headache, Hydrocephalus, Hypochondriasis, Hysteria, Insanity, Locomotor Ataxy, Meningitis, Myelitis, Neuralgia, Paralysis, Sciatica, Spinal Cord, Sunstroke, Tetanus, &c.
NERVOUSNESS is a term somewhat vaguely used, both popularly and by medical men, to express an unduly excitable condition of the nervous system, manifested by unusually ready manifestation of emotion—e.g. starting at slight causes—by morbid sensitiveness, by unreasonable apprehension, by trembling of muscles, and in many other ways. The condition may be natural, or produced by ill-health or acute disease. It is more common in children than in adults, and in the female sex than the male. Care should be taken to improve the general health by good nutrition, regulation of the bowels, open-air exercise, bathing, change of air and scene, and the ordinary tonic remedies; stimulants and drugs should be avoided save under the special direction of a medical man.