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

  • Campbell, Hugh Joseph, 1898-
Date:
1873
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Credit: Nervous exhaustion and the diseases induced by it : with observations on the origin and nature of nervous force. 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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    CHAPTER I. THE INFLUENCE OF CIVILIZATION IN THE PRODUCTION OF NERVOUS DISEASE. Nervous exhaustion, the basis of so many im- portant functional diseases of the most dissimilar character, is essentially the disease of civilization. The more advanced a nation has become in the means and desire for enjoyment of the senses, the more prevalent have nervous diseases been amongst its people; and when to these have been added the effects of the vices of large and crowded cities, and the neglect of hygienic laws, a condition of consti- tution has been produced in which proneness to severe nervous affections is one of the most promi- nent as well as most serious symptoms. Diseases depending on an exhausted state of the great nervous centres may be divided into two classes—viz., the induced and the hereditary. The induced include all those cases of severe func- tional derangement which have their origin in some error of the individual; the hereditary, those in which the offspring suffer for the faults of the parent.