KENT gives some vivid little Nux pictures. “Nux is an old dyspeptic, lean, hungry, withered; bent forward; premature age; always selecting his food and digesting almost none; aversion to meat, it makes him sick; craves pungent bitter things, tonics. Weak stomach; after meals pain in stomach; stomach sinks in; withers and loses flesh.”
And again: “A business man has been at his desk till he is tired out: he received many letters, he has a great many little irons in the fire; he is troubled with a thousand little things; his mind is constantly hurried from one thing to another until he is tortured. It is not so much the heavy affairs, but the little things. He is compelled to stimulate his memory to attend to all the little details; he goes home and thinks about it; lies awake at night; his mind is confused with the whirl of business, and the affairs of the day crowd upon him; finally brain fag comes on. When the little details come to him he gets angry, and wants to go away, tears things up, scolds, goes home and takes it out of his family and children. Sleeps by fits and starts; wakens at 3 a.m. and his business affairs crowd upon him so that he cannot sleep again till late in the morning, and wakens up tired and exhausted. He wants to sleep late in the morning. Melancholy, sadness, but all the time feels as if he could fly to pieces, jerks things about, tears things up; wants to force things his own way. Driven by impulses to commit acts that verge upon insanity–the destruction of others.”.
