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

  • Beard, George M. (George Miller), 1839-1883.
Date:
1888
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    we have a number of independent workers in the same field, among whom are to be mentioned Drs. Jewell, Mitchell, and Goodell, who have made, and are still making, thoughtful and suggestive contributions to this subject. In England, Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson,' approach- ing this subject from the side of ophtlialmology, has by his own observations confirmed, though not in a systematic fomi, some of the facts and reasonings of this treatise. It would, therefore, appear that the general doc- trines tauglit in this work have already passed the test which every claim in science must meet—verification by a number of experts in the branch t(^ which it be- longs, and that the time has come to present the sub- ject in a i)ermaneut form. Although neurasthenia had not been systematically studied, yet that there was a morbid c( )ndition of the nervous system, for which the ordinary names and de- scriptions of the books would not suffice, had been suggested by various writers. Tims, Dr. Flint, in the first edition to liis work on Practice, devotes a page to what he calls nervous asthenia, acknowledging the indebtedness for that term to Dr. Fordyce Barker. Dr. Flint defines the disease as functional debility, induced by excessive and luiduly prolonged activity of the brain functions. In spite of the imperfections of this definition, which ■See the London Medical Times and Gazette, June 2l8t and August 23d, 1879.