A practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia) : its symptoms, nature, sequences, treatment / by George M. Beard ; edited, with notes and additions, by A.D. Rockwell.

  • Beard, George M. (George Miller), 1839-1883.
Date:
1905
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Credit: A practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia) : its symptoms, nature, sequences, treatment / by George M. Beard ; edited, with notes and additions, by A.D. Rockwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PREFACE. In this country nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia) is more common than any other form of nervous dis- ease. With the various neuroses to which it is allied, and to which it leads, it constitutes a family of func- tional disorders that are of comparatively recent de- velopment, and that abound especially in the northern and eastern part of the United States. In spite of its frequency and importance, neurasthe- nia, although long recognized, in a vague way, among the people and the profession under such terms as general debility, nervous prostration, nervous debility, nervous asthenia, spinal weakness, and, more accurately, by some of its special symptoms and accompaniments, as spinal irritation, nervous dyspepsia, oxaluria, cerebral and spinal anaemia and hyperasmia, is even now but just beginning to find recognition in the literature of nervous diseases. It is at once the most frequent, most interesting, and most neglected nervous disease of modern times. Among specialists and general practitioners alike, there has been, on this whole subject, a fearful and wondrous confusion of ideas. These functiona Inervous symptoms have, in short, always slipped from our