Nerve prostration and other functional disorders of daily life / by Robson Roose.

  • Roose, Robson, 1848-1905.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Nerve prostration and other functional disorders of daily life / by Robson Roose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. In placing this work before the profession, I venture to make a few remarks by way of explanation. While fully recognizing the important services rendered to medical science by recent pathological discoveries, I feel convinced that the distinction between functional and structural dis- orders is one which is not yet obliterated. Some sanguine observers think that the term functional will soon be expunged from medical nomenclature, on the ground that every disturbance of function must be due to change of structure. Even admitting the validity, though by no means capable of demonstration, of this latter statement, it does not follow that the change should always be of such a character as to be discoverable by the aid of any instrument whatever. I regard the condition termed ''neurasthenia, or *' nerve- prostration, as a typical example of functional disorders ; and in addition to those complaints which fairly belong to the same category, I have included, a few others in which slight and temporary changes are seen to occur in the tissues, because under suitable treatment they rapidly pass away, leaving no trace of their previous existence, beyond a certain weakness which shows itself in liability to recur- rences of the same morbid state.