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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    The propriety of publishing these researches is yet further inculcated by the consideration of the veiy im- portant progress that has been made in the treatment of neurasthenia and allied affections, especially during the last decade—cases which formerly were allowed to suffer for years, and perhaps to develop special and more serious diseases, are now, with our more abun- dant remedies, and, more than all, with our better knowledge of the dosage and action of remedies, and of the laws of their combination, speedily relieved, and, in time, substantially cured. In no department of therapeutics has there been, even in this most active age, so rapid and so useful an advance as in the man- agement of nervous exhaustion, and the diseases that result from and are related to it; and hence a subject the interest of which was originally and mainly scien- tific and philosophic, is now of direct and practical and personal concern, not only to specialists in the diseases of the nervous system, but to practitioners, and to sufferers everywhere. To describe with thoroughness, if not exhaustively, the symptoms of neurasthenia—those hitherto assigned to the other affections, or regarded as special and dis- tinct diseases themselves; to show their relations and interdependence ; to distinguish them from the often times closely resembling symptoms of organic disease on the one hand and the symptoms of hysteria and hypochondria on the other hand; to unify and harmo- nize the complex developments and manifestations of this malady; to indicate its pathology and rationale,