agrypnia

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“
Among the most prominent and annoying symptoms was _agrypnia_.

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  • Among the most prominent and annoying symptoms was _agrypnia_. —  The Electric Bath
  • Although, as a rule, but the symptom of some definite pathological condition, agrypnia is of such frequent occurrence, and so detrimental to the general health, that it appears to me to merit special consideration. —  The Electric Bath
  • _agrypnia_ we are unable to discover any pathological condition that would account for this symptom; but the probability is that here there is a sluggishness of some one or more of the functions, mental or physical, too obscurely manifested to be discovered by our present means of diagnosis, yet reached and rectified by a mode of electrization that traverses and permeates _every_ portion of the body. —  The Electric Bath
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀγρυπνία, from ἂγρυπνος, sleepless: see Agrypnus.
 

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