Clinical lectures on neurasthenia / by Thomas D. Savill.

  • Thomas Dixon Savill
Date:
1906
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    chronic insanity. Changing delusions are not uncommon even in favourable cases, but the persistence of any one delusion, and especially a delusion of persecution or being followed, is very grave, and so also are hallucinations of hearing and sight. A nervous heredity is also un¬ favourable in cerebro-spinal neurasthenia and hystero- neurasthenia. It is always difficult, but in my view not impossible, to eradicate neurasthenia from a person who is born nervous.