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

Date:
1911
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    deduced, that the dyspepsia of neurasthenics is far from being always the same, and that the disorder of the gastric functions from which it proceeds is variable in nature and differs greatly in different cases. It follows that in practice the physician must set himself, by using all the means of infor- mation at his disposal, to note as precisely as possible the character and the degree of the dyspeptic troubles presented by each subject. Only a methodical analysis of each individual case can lead him to deductions of real importance as to the prognosis and treatment. 1. Dyspepsia from gastro-intestinal atony.— The most frequent type of dyspepsia is that which has received the appropriate names of dyspepsia from gastro-intestinal atony (Bouveret) and nervo- motor dyspepsia (Mathieu). It is with this form that we must begin the analytical study of the digestive disorders that may be observed in neu- rasthenics. The dyspeptic group of symptoms of which we are now treating is very common among subjects affected with nervous exhaustion, and, whatever may have been said to the contrary, has characters sufficiently well marked to be easily recognised. It deserves, then, to have a place among the cardinal symptoms or stigmata of neurasthenia. M. Bouveret has rightly described two degrees or forms of neurasthenic gastro-intestinal atony, the slight and the severe; and this distinction seems