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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![work, neurastliei]ic disorders are not found to any very great extent in charitable institutions, and are quite rare among that class for whom such institutions are organized; those, therefore, who give the bulk of their time and thouglit to charitable work among the ab- jectly poor in institutions, or even out of them, will have but little opportunity to study any of the symp- toms or disorders referred to in this treatise. Young men in their profession, who have the leisure and the power for independent observation, throw themselves into charitable work, where very many of the symptoms and phases of the disease which they will be required to combat when they enter private practice scarcely ever appear. Unmindful of the pro found and just remai-k, attributed to a member of the English parUament, in a discussion of the problem how to relieve the poor: Charity creates much of the miseries it relieves, but does not relieve all the misery that it creates; oblivious also of the historical fact that very many of the noblest and most beautiful dis- coveries of modern medicine and surgery have been made outside of hospitals, physicians are yet taught and inspired, by every form of influence, to give their time and force to public institutions, and that. too. in a period of life when, if ever, original work is to be done. The result of this unscientific philanthropy is that the miseries of the poor have been increased in mani- fold ways, and the miseries of the rich, the comfortable, and intelligent have been unstudied and unrelieved.' ' It is proper to add that this evil of unwise and injurious charity is now becoming recognized by tbe profession of New Yorlc and other great cities, and that attempts have been made, though not very successfully, during the past year, to remedy the difficulty. The strong and truthful paper of Dr. Sturgis on this subject is especially worthy of note.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21228899_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
