A practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia) : its symptoms, nature, sequences, treatment / by George M. Beard. A.M., M.D. edited with notes and additions, by A. D. Rockwell.
- George Miller Beard
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical treatise on nervous exhaustion (neurasthenia) : its symptoms, nature, sequences, treatment / by George M. Beard. A.M., M.D. edited with notes and additions, by A. D. Rockwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.
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![The current was then as gradually decreased to zero. That night, without the administration of a.ny internal remedy, the patient slept six hours, and the second night, after a second similar application, he slept soundly for seven hom'S. To detail further the history of this case would be simply a repetition. He was under observation for one month, receiving the same treatment nearly every day. At the end of that time he found it necessary to go abroad on matters of im- portance, but the improvement in sleep that had been gained remained permanent, I gave him letters of introduction to prominent parties in England, France and Germany, fully describing the case and my method of treatment, but he found it unnecessary to make use of them.] Mental and Physical Sedation.—There is more of calmness, of repose, of serenity of feeling and manner; the patient finds it less difficult to sit or keep still without working or moving the limbs. He is less fretful and irritable. The abnormal tension and activ- ity frequently observed in functional nervous maladies disappear, and while the capacity for work increases the ability to abstain from working without fretting or chafing also increases. Increase in Fat and Weight of the Body.—Again and again have I seen the dyspeptic and the emaciated fill out under this regimen, even when they pursued their regular callings. This gain of fat in a few weeks reaches its limit, be- yond which it cannot be forced by any continuance or combination of the treatment, and it is not observed to the same degree in all cases, even of those that are perfectly cured. On returaing to active, normal life, some of this added flesh remains as a permanent possession, while some may gradually disappear.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21228899_0244.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
