Certain symptoms of nervous exhaustion / by George M. Beard.

  • Beard, George M. (George Miller), 1839-1883.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Certain symptoms of nervous exhaustion / by George M. Beard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    /o, CERTAIN SYMPTOMS OF /NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.^ By GEORGE M. BEARD, M. D., Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, Member of the American Neu- rological Association, etc. (Read before the New York Academy of Medicine, April 4*, 187S.) [Sep-ini from Virgmia Medical Mo7t/kfy, Jutie, Under the term, Nmrasthmm, {usupou, nerve; a, pri. vative; and adsuo^, strength (lack of nerve strength) I c esciihed a number of years ago* a functional nervous chsease of modern and largely, though not entirely, of neucan origin. It is a malady that has developed mainlv during the last half century, although scattering cases ap peared before that time. At present, in the Northern pm-t ot this country,.this disorder is exceedingly frequent ami is he cause of much distress; aud yet, likeYuyThei ■mtand mterestiug phenomena of the nervous system itZs iyen neglected by the profession, and abandoned to froZlmnlcT^'’™''*^' '<»'ce-is to be distmguisliod horn simple annenna-poverfy of blood-with which h is f, quently combined; and also from hysteria ZZicI, h o Z ■ Soi'ile of il,e“ «>-■ ted athletes have been afllietj in ll!; Z ’ - iciiu ue find suliicqueinly ]nibl Irialy.^ first edition.