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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    SEXUAL NEURASTHENIA ^^tsmiMm.^^ m m (NERVOUS EXHAUSTION.) Its Hygiene, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment, WITH A ClIArTF.R OM By (jeorge M. Beard, A.M., M.D., Formerly Lecturer on Nervous Diseases in the University of tiie City of New York; Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; Author of Our Home Physician,' May Fever; one of the Authors of Medical and Surgical Electricity, etc. [posthumous manuscript.] Edited by A. D. Rockwell, A.M.. M.D. Fellow of the New York Academy of.Medicine, and Electro-Therapeutist to the N. Y. State Woman's Hospital; one of the Authors of ' Medical and Surgical Electricity, etc. The philosophy of this work is based on the theory lhat there is a special and very important and very frequent clinical variety of neuras- thenia (nervous exhaustion) to which the term se.xual neurasthenia (sexual exhaustion) may properly be applied. Wliile lliis variety may be and often is involved as cause or effect or coincident with other varieties—exhaustion of the brain, of the spine, of the stomach and digestive system—yet in its full development it can be-and should be diffeientiated from hysteria, simple hypochondria, in- sanity, and various organic diseases of the nervous system, with all of which it had until lately been confounded. The long familiar local conditions of genital clelsility in the male —impotence and spermatorrhoea, prostatorihcua, irritable ]irostate— which have hitherto been almost universally described as diseases by themselves, are philosophically and clinically analyzed. These symp- toms, as such, do not usually exist alone, but are associated with other local or gener.d symptoms of sexual neurasthenia jierein described. The causes of sexual neurasthenia are not single or simple but complex; evil habits, excesses, tobacco, alcohol, worry and special e.x- citements, even climate itself, are the great predisposing cau'-es The subject is restricted mainly to sexual exh.uisiion aS it exists in the male, for the reason that the symptoms c-f neurastheni i, as it exists in females, are, and for a long time have been, understooil and recog- nized. Cases aml'igous to those in females are dismissed as hypochon- driacs, just as fe iiales suffering from now clearly explained uterine and ovarian disrde.s were formerly dismissed as h\stfiics. This view of the relati(m of the reproductive system to nervous diseases is in accordance with facts that arc vcnii.ible and abunilant ; that in men as in w.imcn, a large group of nervous symptoms, which are very common indeed, woidd not exist but for morbid stales of the re- productive system. {/■'/■, III Dr. lu iv if s Iiilroilut lioi'. The Causes and Symptoms of forty-three cases arc given, fol- lowed by a chapter on treatment.— \_Scc Review <>/ SI. J.oiiis National Driij^i^ist and others. In One Volume, Crown 8vo, Nearly 300 pages, $2.