Psychopathological term to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, heart palpitations, high blood pressure, neuralgia, and depressed mood

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To combat nervousness and fatigue : "Beminal" with phenobarbital tablets and liquid / Ayerst, McKenna & Harrison Limited.

Post card : nerve troubles cured by the latest scientific discovery.

Estimulando la energia nerviosa : Phosphagón / The Arlington Chemical Company.

A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.

The systematic treatment of nerve prostration and hysteria.

Nervous exhaustion and the diseases induced by it : with observations on the origin and nature of nervous force.

Handbuch der Neurasthenie / bearbeitet von R. v. Hösslin [and others] ; herausgegeben von Franz Carl Müller.

Hepatitis, necrosis of liver, jaundice, as a result of blood transfusion; hepatic reactions etc

George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1928): archives

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The systematic treatment of nerve prostration and hysteria.

Nervous exhaustion and the diseases induced by it : with observations on the origin and nature of nervous force.

Handbuch der Neurasthenie / bearbeitet von R. v. Hösslin [and others] ; herausgegeben von Franz Carl Müller.

Hepatitis, necrosis of liver, jaundice, as a result of blood transfusion; hepatic reactions etc

George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1928): archives