A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (Neurasthenia)

Note on the Essential Psychic Signs of General Functional Neuratrophia or Neurasthenia *Read before the Missouri State Medical Association, at Hannibal, Mo., May 18, 1882.

<e Tiie subject of latent and unrecognised morbid mind," said Forbes Winslow in his classical and unequalled treatise on Obscure Diseases of the Brain and Mind, " is yet in its infancy." Much that -was unknown to the profession before this great observer penetrated the then unexplored wilderness of obscure cerebro-mental pathology, and led others to the later discovery of new truth, still remai...

Myalgic encephalomyelitis, Princess Aurora, and the wandering womb.

A British disease Myalgic encephalomyelitis is a new name for an old disease with an impressive history of synonyms. It's a British disease, unknown in the New World; but North America is in the grip of chronic EpsteinBarr virus infection, and Australasia has repetitive stress injury, which unkind people say is myalgic compensationitis. Myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic EpsteinBarr virus wi...

Medical constructions of long-term exhaustion, past and present.

Culture and history affect the ways in which medical knowledge is shaped, sustained and changed. The less knowledge we have, the larger the space for the cultural imprint becomes. Based on these assumptions, we ask: how have medical constructions of long-term exhaustion changed over time, and how are changing constructions related to societal change? To discuss these questions we conducted a co...

Olivia Weisser, Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015), pp. ix, 281, $85.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-0300200706.

technologies continue to affect our wellbeing, sharing a similar discourse to that articulated by George M. Beard – the proponent of neurasthenia – a century earlier. It would have been interesting to see a more developed analysis of this theme, since Exhaustion focuses entirely on human experiences. Looking at the exhaustion of the Earth’s resources might have provided an opportunity to explor...

Life situations, emotions and neurocirculatory asthenia (anxiety neurosis, neurasthenia, effort syndrome).