Sexual neurasthenia (nervous exhaustion) : its hygiene, causes, symptoms and treatment with a chapter on diet for the nervous / by George M. Beard ; edited, with notes and additions, by A.D. Rockwell.
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- 1884
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Credit: Sexual neurasthenia (nervous exhaustion) : its hygiene, causes, symptoms and treatment with a chapter on diet for the nervous / by George M. Beard ; edited, with notes and additions, by A.D. Rockwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![KASTHENIA.—THE PARADOXES OF NEUROLOGY.—THE HUMAN BODY A RESERVOIR OF FORCE.—THE PROCESSES OF EXHAUSTION AND SUPPLY.—HIGHLY EVOLVED (NERVOUS) ORGANIZATIONS HAVE LESS RESISTANCE.— AMERICANS THE MOST NERVOUS PEOPLE OF ALL HIS- TORY. CHAPTER II. EVOLUTION AND RELATION OF THE SEXUAL SENSE 65 THIS SENSE ANALOGOUS TO THAT OF TASTE.—SUBJECT TO^VARIATIONS DEPENDING ON THE INDIVIDUAL IDIO- SYNCRASIES.—FAMILIAR FORMS OF INSANITY.—IM- PAIRMENT OF MEMORY.—THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. —EVOLUTION AND ITS OPPOSITE, DEVOLUTION. —THEIR EXPLANATION.—LOCAL SEXUAL DEBILITY.—THE HIGH SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL INTEREST OF THIS SUB- JECT.— ITS FREQUENCY AND COMPLEXITY IN THE UNITED STATES EXPLAINED.—THREE GREAT CENTRES OF REFLEX IRRITATION : THE BRAIN, THE STOMACH, AND THE GENITAL SYSTEM. CHAPTER III. THE RELATION OF NEURASTHENIA TO OTHER DISEASES 75 ■]'0 MALARIA. —TO SYPHILIS. — TO CYSTITIS. —TO OR- GANIC DISEASES.—TO CONSTIPATION.—TO HYPOCHON- DRIASIS.—ILLUSTRATED CASES OF FALSE HYPOCHON- DRIA.—DEMONSTRABLE DISl'.ASE USUALLY THE BASIS OF SO-CALLED HYPOCHONDRIASIS. — ACTION OF MIND ON BODY. — SEXUAL HYPOCHONDRIASIS.—RELATION TO INSANITY IN GENERAL.—EXTREME CASES OF NEU- RASTHENIA DEVELOP THE MELANCHOLIA FORM OF IN- SANITY.—BORDER-LINERS, OR MONOMANIA SYMPTOMS. —RELATION TO NYMPHOMANIA, EROTOMANIA. AND SA- TYRIASIS. — SEXUAL PERVERSION.—ITS PSYCHOLOGY. --RELATION TO EPILEPSY.—TO NEURALGIA.—TO HAY-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2197519x_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)