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Concept

Neurasthenia

Images

  • A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.
  • A doctor suggests to an exhausted patient that he commit theft and spend some time locked in a police cell in order to regain his health. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1878.
  • A medical practitioner examining the throat of a nervous woman via the anus. Cut paper silhouette by Elkan.
  • A physician prescribing entertainment as a cure for a young woman's nervous illness. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-E. Jacque.
  • The tax on medicine represented as a tax on illness and, ultimately, even on the 'abnormality' of healthiness: ten vignettes. Photomechanical reproduction of a wood engraving by H. Maigrot, 1907.
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Catalogue

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    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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    Contribution à l’étude de la neurasthénie : neurasthénie essentielle, étude et traitement / par Hector Thiroux.

    Thiroux Hector. | Date: 1892
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    A practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia) : its symptoms, nature, sequences, treatment / by George M. Beard ; edited, with notes and additions, by A.D. Rockwell.

    Beard, George M. (George Miller), 1839-1883. | Date: 1905
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    Isolement et psychothapie ; traitement de l'hystie et de la neurasthie pratique de la reducation morale et physique / par Jean Camus et Philippe Pagniez. Prace [par] J. Dejerine.

    Camus, Jean. | Date: 1904
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    Clinique hydrothérapique. Silhouettes de névropa[t]hes. Premiere série. La Neurasthénie. Les vrais et les faux neurasthéniques / Dr Beni-Barde.

    Beni-Barde Joseph-Marie-Alfred, 1834-1919. | Date: 1908
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