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, ...

Neurasthenia was first proposed by the US physician Beard in 1869 as, at a first glance, a disorder of physical and mental fatigue. 44 Wessely reported: “Mental fatigue was an integral feature ...

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 ...

Neurasthenia was not just for entrepreneurs and businessmen, though – it was closely associated with artists and creative people. “People who were focused on ideas, used their brains to excess, felt ...

Yeonsik JUNG, “Our one great national malady”: Neurasthenia and American Imperial and Masculine Anxiety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Korean Journal of Medical History, 30, 2, (393-432 ...

Eating disorders -- especially in young girls -- are really troubling. And we often think of it as a modern day condition. That's not the case. During the Civil War, doctors found cases of ...

A neurasthenia diagnosis was originally a mark of refinement, of being cultured. In classical antiquity and also in the Romantic era, melancholics were often associated with exceptionality ...

The history of Neurasthenia from the Victorian ages. e-mail; 0. Shares. Read Article . News videos. 1:08. Police comb through luxury Bali villa where Aussie was shot dead. share Read Article.

You've got neurasthenia. The world-weariness we currently identify as 'burnout' actually had a medical terminology back in the days of the Victorian era, and it sounds spot on for what most of us ...

SCHOOLBOYS ON STREETS CAUSE OF NEURASTHENIA. Give this article. April 19, 1908. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from April 19, 1908, Section M, Page ...