Nervous exhaustion : its causes, outcomes and treatment / Walter Tirel.

  • Tyrell, Walter.
Date:
1891
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Credit: Nervous exhaustion : its causes, outcomes and treatment / Walter Tirel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NERVOUS EXHAUSTION. Hereditary. “ Reproduction is to be regarded as but one incident in a continuous proto- plasmic life, which makes a man continuous with his ancestry and posterity, and not a different being in any philosophical sense.”—Dr, Clouston’s Morison Lectures (i), Lancet. There can be no doubt that a certain unstable and defective control of the nervous system can be transmitted from parent to offspring, often through many generations, and that this instability may resemble closely, and give rise to disorders precisely similar to those which we find resulting from ex- treme exhaustion of the nervous constitution in the individual. We term it Instability, or want of nervous control, when derived from ancestral sources, Nervous Ex- haustion when induced. In both, in the hereditary as in the induced, there will be found a marked in- ability to resist depressing influences—whether they arise from overwork of brain, mental shock, worry, or anxiety, from “ sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity,” or from the less important in- fluences of atmospheric change, or rapid alterations B
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