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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    this particular case these explosions occurred while falling to sleep. There are very many- cases where the jerkings of the muscles, often throwing the body apparently up from the bed, occur, and these symptoms of explosions and jerkings may also appear at other times. Other symptoms in the case of this patient were, lack of mental control, neurasthenic voice—which was most noteworthy from the fact that he was a strong, vigorous-looking man—and attacks of frequent micturition. For two months he had had an attack of inebriety in a mild form, and was, to use his own language, crazy for whis- key. '' From this attack he had recovered. In- ebriety, as I have frequently urged, is one of the very many S3aTiptoms of tlie neurasthenic state. Neurasthenia, both of the general form and of the sexual variet}^ is one of the most frequent of the many exciting causes of inebriet}'', a ner- vous disease that may attack those who have never been intemperate. As usual, in cases of this kind, this patient was especially nervous and debilitated in the hot weather of July and August. Few patients that consult me are so difficult to diagnosticate, especially in regard to causation, as the above case. There seemed to be at first no reason why the patient should have these symptoms ; they had come on apparently with- out any traceable cause. He had had S3'philis fifteen years before, and syphilis attacking the
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