Neurasthenia / by Gilbert Ballet ; translated from the third French edition by P. Campbell Smith.

Date:
1911
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Credit: Neurasthenia / by Gilbert Ballet ; translated from the third French edition by P. Campbell Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    own homes. Finally, there are some, but these cases are exceptional, who from the time of their arrival in the mountains are tormented by such insomnia that they are obliged to break off the treatment. In this respect one meets with idiosyncrasies, with individual susceptibihties, that it is impossible to foresee. These general principles enable us to lay down the indications for the employment of mountain climates in the treatment of neurasthenia. Such climates undeniably exert a stimulant and tonic action on the nervous centres, and on the great functions of the economy, the circulation, the respiration, and the digestion; hence they may be recommended to the majority of those suffering from nervous exhaustion. They are especially indicated in cases of cerebrasthenia in which symptoms of cerebral depression predominate, when the cerebral asthenia, the inability to work, and the headache have developed under the influence of intellectual overpressure or prolonged troubles ; in cases of mild cerebro-spinal neuras- thenia accompanied only by atony of the digestive passages, or by a slight degree of anemia; and finally, a residence among mountains is alto- gether beneficial to convalescent neurasthenics whose recovery is still recent and needs, so to speak, to be consolidated. On the other hand the following neurasthenics must not be sent to resorts whose altitude is I