Neurasthenia

"Neurasthenia," said Mrs. Biggums to her cook, "I think we will have some chicken croquettes today out of that leftover pork and calves 'liver."

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[151] See the article on "Neurasthenia" by Rudolf Arndt in Tuke's

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

Neurasthenia, she believes, became a compelling social narrative in Japan because it distilled and gave a name to the inchoate anxiety of the times.

Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

Neurasthenia was as well known and accepted as Teddy Roosevelt, with his rough-riding military career, exaltation of open spaces, and his energy-conserving soft speaking/big stick philosophy.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

Neurasthenia was not a sign of degeneracy but the mark of the elect—the “brain workers” whose refined nature both qualified them to manage the new world and made them susceptible to its difficulties.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

An article in an intellectual magazine circa 1902 was headlined “Neurasthenia: Operators, Writers, Government Officials, and Students, Read This.”

Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

Neurasthenia, hysteria, melancholia, nervosa—the pre-Freudian names for it were exotic and wonderful.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Neurasthenia, hysteria, melancholia, nervosa—the pre-Freudian names for it were exotic and wonderful.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

Neurasthenia is often nothing else than intellectual confusion produced by the inability of the nervous system to obtain from the muscular system regular obedience to the order from the brain.

The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

"Yes'm," said Neurasthenia, called Teeny for short.

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