It debilitates the brain and nervous system, thus inducing epileptic fits and nervous depression.
"Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children"
Pye Henry Chavasse
This custom is very pernicious; it debilitates the mother, overworks all parts of the living machinery, and being in direct opposition to the laws of their being, their progeny must degenerate.
"The American Reformed Cattle Doctor"
George Dadd
Excessive emotion debilitates the system.
"The Colored Girl Beautiful"
E. Azalia Hackley