Neurasthenia

While the term neurasthenia is becoming daily more familiar to the general public, it is being, on the whole, used, except as a convenient handle, rather less among neurologists. ❋ George Lincoln Walton (1897)

In her presence he always felt a rage against what he called her neurasthenia -- a word he frequently used in drawing up bills for divorce. ❋ Ben Hecht (1929)

So, recognizing the accuracy of the beautiful analysis of Professor Déjérine of what he calls neurasthenia, we venture to assimilate it with the equally true analysis which Babinski has made of the immediate mechanism of what he wishes to call pithiatism. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Some have mistakenly compared CFS to what was called neurasthenia in the late 1800s—a condition that was thought to be caused by reading newspapers and, in the case of women, by education. ❋ Leonard A. Jason (2011)

In the condition known as neurasthenia, which is often taken as a type of a functional disease, the basal and intrinsic cause is activity of the nervous system with the using up of material which is not compensated for by the renewal which comes in repose and sleep. ❋ William Thomas Councilman (N/A)

The only quarrel I have with the name neurasthenia is that it diverts attention from the real condition oftenest to be treated, namely, the faulty mental tendency, and directs attention to an assumed debility which may or may not exist. ❋ George Lincoln Walton (1897)

The disease known as neurasthenia arises both in women _and in men_ in consequence of these methods. ❋ Halliday G. Sutherland (1921)

In sickness, especially in that condition known as neurasthenia, where the main symptoms cluster around an abnormal liability to fatigue, and also in many other conditions, there is an increase in the diffusion of excitement so that one starts all over at a noise, instead of merely turning to see what it is, so that expectation and attention become painful and fatiguing. ❋ Unknown (1921)

It seems to the reviewer indeed, that what the authors call neurasthenia is merely a somewhat complex elaboration of the psychosis by induction to which Babinski has restricted the name hysteria. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The most important of the psychoneuroses, in so far as the housewife is concerned, is the condition called neurasthenia, although two other diseases, psychasthenia and hysteria, are of importance. ❋ Abraham Myerson (1914)

From a Jewish-American father he has inherited that all too common taint of psychasthenia (miscalled neurasthenia); he confesses, moreover, -- like other men of strong carnal proclivities -- to certain immaterial needs and aspirations after "the beyond." ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

It results in neurasthenia, which is largely a dislocation or collapse of the great voluntary centers, a derangement of the will. ❋ Unknown (1907)

In these, and many other passages that might be quoted, the alienist will readily recognise the cerebral neurasthenia, that is so often accompanied by profound dejection and mad fancies. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Stephen Straus, head of the CFS research program at the NIH, said that he believed it was the same illness that was once called neurasthenia, a large body of evidence accumulated that CFS patients have characteristic patterns of immune, autonomic, neurological, and endocrine abnormalities. ❋ Julie Rehmeyer (2011)

The 19th-century philosopher William James reportedly called neurasthenia, from which he claimed to suffer himself, "Americanitis," in part the result of the accelerating pace of American life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

_cause_ of a headache are only _symptoms_ of some general constitutional lack of balance, as eye-strain or neurasthenia, which is the cause of both these discomforts. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

Reminded me of the condition he believed he had and for which Vittoz seems to have treated him, "neurasthenia". ❋ Frank Wilson (2008)

Four I could define, one I could have guessed correctly, three more I recognized as words one of which I knew, in principle, but for some reason wasn't sure of, despite being aware of the film title and recognizing it as the base of "neurasthenia". ❋ Unknown (2004)

Closely allied to these are those disturbances of the nervous system lumped together under the soul-satisfying designation of "neurasthenia," which are chiefly due to the accumulation in the system of the fatigue poisons, or substances due to prolonged overstrain, under-rest, or underfeeding of the system. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)