...most frequent, most interesting, and most neglected nervous disease of modern times." He holds that it is a chronic functional disease of the nervous system,...basis of which is impoverishment of nervous force and waste of nerve-tissue in excess of repair. Professor Bartholow" denies that neurasthenia is a primary...

...to the pathology and rationale of nerve exhaustion, the author makes the fol- ! lowing points: (1) Neurasthenia is a chronic functional disease of the...basis of which is impoverishment of ' nervous force, waste of nerve tissue in excess of repair, physical and mental, the feebleness and instability of nerve...

...Recapitulation. — The leading points of the pathology and rationale of neurasthenia may be thus epitomized: 1. Neurasthenia is a chronic, functional disease of the...basis of which is impoverishment of nervous force, waste of nerve-tissue in excess of repair; hence the lack of inhibitory or controlling power — physical...

...perhaps developed this subject more fully than any other English writer, defines neurasthenia as being "a chronic functional disease of the nervous system, the basis of which is impoverishment of nerve force, deficiency of reserve, with liability to quick exhaustion, and a necessity for frequent...

...most frequent, most interesting, and most neglected nervous disease of modern times." He holds that it is a chronic functional disease of the nervous system, the basis of whicli is impoverishment of nervous force and waste of nerve-tissue in excess of repair. Professor...

...summarizes the leading points in its pathology and rationale : "Neurastheniais a chronic functional disorder of the nervous system, the basis of which is impoverishment of nervous force and waste of nerve tissue in excess of repair, hence the lack of inhibitory or controlling power, physical...

...clinical entity that corresponds to this term. Beard, who baptised this disease, defined neurasthenia as a "chronic, functional disease of the nervous system,...basis of which is impoverishment of nervous force, waste of nerve tissue in excess of repair ; hence the lack of inhibitory or contributory power —...

...symptoms of " nervousness," or conditions of nervous exhaustion, he used the term as designating " a chronic functional disease of the nervous system, the basis of which is impoverishment of nervous tissue in excess of repair." When, in 1880 and 1881, he published in his latest works an elaboration...

...nervous exhaustion, which had its heyday at the end of the nineteenth century. According to Beard, "Neurasthenia is a chronic, functional disease of...basis of which is impoverishment of nervous force" (1880, 115). Individuals were natively endowed with a fixed amount of nervous force, which obeyed the...

...would be an agreeable distraction. They arc suffering, as Geo. M. Randses emphatically states "from a chronic, functional disease of the nervous system,...basis of which is impoverishment of nervous force, and the various and multitudinous symptoms that accompany the con* . flition are largely the result...