Neurasthenia / Tr. from the 3d French ed. by P. Campbell Smith.

  • Ballet, Gilbert, 1853-1916.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Neurasthenia / Tr. from the 3d French ed. by P. Campbell Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    AUTHORS' PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. It is not our intention to set forth in this work a full account, with illustrative cases, of Neuras- thenia and its treatment. This affection has been the subject of many descriptions since the truly fundamental picture of it drawn by Beard. The American author was not indeed the first to observe and to isolate Neurasthenia, since its principal symptoms are found in the Spinal Irritation of Franck, the Proteiform Neuralgia of Cerise, the Nervosity of Bouchut, and the Cerebro- cardiac Neuropathy of Krishaber; but Beard's monograph had the merit of being more synthetic and more complete than its predecessors, and above all it had the good fortune to appear at a propitious moment. While Nervous Exhaustion seemed to become multiplied in America and naturally drew the attention of neuro-pathologists (Weir Mitchell after Beard), in the old world the new conditions created by the exigencies of modern life promoted the recrudescence of the Neurosis from Exhaustion of which Monneret had already spoken.