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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], Highly important opinion. (search)
Morbid nervousness. --The morbid nervousness of the present day appears in several ways. It brings a man sometimes to that startled state, that the sudden opening of a door, the clash of the falling fire-irons, or any little accident, puts him in a flutter. How nervous the late Sir Robert Peel must have been when, a few weeks before his death, he went to the Zoological Gardens, and when a monkey suddenly sprang upon his arm, the great and worthy man fainted! Another phase of nervousness is, when a man is brought to that state that the least noise or cross-occurrence seems to jar through the entire nervous system — to upset him, as we say, when he cannot command his mental powers, except in perfect stillness, or in the chamber and at the writing table to which he is accustomed; when, in short, he gets fidgety, easily worried, full of whims and fancies, which must be indulged and considered, or he is quite out of sorts. Another phase of the same morbid condition is, when a hum