A practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia) : its symptoms, nature, sequences, treatment / by George M. Beard. A.M., M.D. edited with notes and additions, by A. D. Rockwell.

  • Beard, George M. (George Miller), 1839-1883.
Date:
1888
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Credit: A practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia) : its symptoms, nature, sequences, treatment / by George M. Beard. A.M., M.D. edited with notes and additions, by A. D. Rockwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Many important symptoms he does not mention, and no attempt is made to explain in detail the diagnosis, pathology, or rationale of the disease. It is due, how- ever, to Professor Erb to say that he evidently suspects the justness of his analysis, and in one place clearly intimates that he has doubts whether spinal irritation should be considered as a distinct disease; and he con- fesses that it is impossible to draw the hues between spinal exhaustion and spinal irritation,' So far as I know, none of the recent standard works on nervous diseases, in any language, have any chap- ter on neurasthenia, with the exception of that of Erb, above noted, and the Maladies du Systeme Nerveux (Paris, 1879), by Dr. J. Grasset, Professor in the Fac- ulty of Medicine, Montpellier, France; and Diseases of the Nervous System, ' by Rosenthal, of Viemia. Prof. Grasset, however, unlike Erb, makes no addi- tion to our knowledge of neurasthenia, but simply epitomizes the facts and reasonings of my earlier es- say. In attempting to point out the relation of neu- rasthenia to the special symptom, spinal irritation, he falls into the same confusion as Erb, without appar- ently suspecting that confusion. Under the general heading Spinal Irritation, various phases of neuralgia, cerebro-cardiac neuropathia and agoraphobia—fear 'During the past suiiinier I had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Erl) in Heidelberg, and <>f conversing with him in some detail on this subject. He stated tliat his exj)erienee with ncMir.-isthenia had much widened since the publication of his oliaptcr in the CyelopiL'dia. In most respects 1 believe he would accept the criticisms nnd suggestions aliove ofTered. ' This work has been translated by Dr. Putzel, of New York.