THIS book is principally an appreciation of the late Dr. L. S. Barnes. It describes his attitude to neurasthenia and his method of treating the neurasthenic, which appears to have been by the ...

Fibromyalgia is closely allied with and often indistinguishable from neurasthenia, a disorder of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that lost favour when it was perceived as being a ...

Neurasthenia is still included in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases and is still sometimes diagnosed in Japan and China, but in America, American-itis is ...

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Those fascinating twists of science and medicine are documented at The College of Physicians in Philadelphia. Dr. Robert Hicks -- the director of The Mutter Museum -- sheds some light on neurasthenia.

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Neurasthenia; Its Causes and Its Home Treatment ...

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Neurasthenia fell out of favor with the medical profession in the early 20th century, as science discovered the impact of hormones and vitamins, and as Sigmund Freud introduced a more nuanced ...

If you're constantly knackered, and being told by your parents that you need to stop 'burning the candle at both ends' (classic Mum phrase) then we've got a diagnosis for you. You've got neurasthenia.

The mental and physical symptoms of exhaustion play a key role in various past and present diagnoses, including acedia, melancholia, neurasthenia, depression, and chronic fatigue syndrome.