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A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.

A doctor suggests to an exhausted patient that he commit theft and spend some time locked in a police cell in order to regain his health. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1878.

A physician prescribing entertainment as a cure for a young woman's nervous illness. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-E. Jacque.

The systematic treatment of nerve prostration and hysteria.

Nervous exhaustion and the diseases induced by it : with observations on the origin and nature of nervous force.

Handbuch der Neurasthenie / bearbeitet von R. v. Hösslin [and others] ; herausgegeben von Franz Carl Müller.

Hepatitis, necrosis of liver, jaundice, as a result of blood transfusion; hepatic reactions etc

George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1928): archives

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The systematic treatment of nerve prostration and hysteria.

Nervous exhaustion and the diseases induced by it : with observations on the origin and nature of nervous force.

Handbuch der Neurasthenie / bearbeitet von R. v. Hösslin [and others] ; herausgegeben von Franz Carl Müller.

Hepatitis, necrosis of liver, jaundice, as a result of blood transfusion; hepatic reactions etc

George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1928): archives