Congestive neurasthenia, or insomnia and nerve depression.

  • Whittle, Edward George.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Congestive neurasthenia, or insomnia and nerve depression. 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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    good selection. No routine system can be applied. Quinine and iron usually disagree ; stomachic tonics Failure of drugs. as gentian, mineral acids, &c, do neither good nor harm ; strychnine has to be given with great caution, and arsenic is perhaps the safest and most useful tonic in many cases, as Dr. Clifford Allbutt has shewn. Although many conditions might be described as having a causative relationship to this malady, they Cause of may be briefly and almost fully summed up in the term brain-strain. It only remains to consider what forms this brain-strain assumes, in what man- Brain strain. ner and under what conditions it acts and its results. The majority of cases begin between the ages of thirty and forty, very few under twenty-five or over fifty. This includes the most active and wearing Age. period of life ; if a man can stand the strain of this period, he will be proof against anything he may encounter afterwards. Nerve depression beyond these limits is usually of a type different from that under consideration, and is often allied to the insane condition. It occurs in males more frequently than in Most often in men actively females. The patients offering the most typical engp^idtionnsg.ood