neurasthenia

• Very frequently the disturbances of digestion which are put down as the cause of a headache are only symptoms of some general constitutional lack of balance, as eye-strain or neurasthenia, which is the cause of both these discomforts. —  Preventable Diseases
• It results in neurasthenia, which is largely a dislocation or collapse of the great voluntary centers, a derangement of the will. —  Fantasia of the Unconscious
• To this I should answer that it is not the mere half-automatic intellectuation which is harmful in men or women subject to states of feebleness or neurasthenia, and that the systematic vigorous use of mind on distinct problems is within some form of control. —  Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
• You grow apprehensive over the analogous tremor which you describe as 'inward trembling,' and which you often feel all through your trunk and sometimes in your knees, hands, and face, particularly about the eyes and mouth and in the fingers The capitalist had started at the mention of the word neurasthenia, and had seemed much relieved when the physician had declared that the symptoms were not dangerous. —  How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers
• Even the confused and disagreeable sound due to the clatter of high-pitched women's voices at teas and receptions may, when frequently repeated, be productive of changes in the nerve cells sufficiently marked to give rise to the unusual reactions which are evidence of disease In the condition known as neurasthenia, which is often taken as a type of a functional disease, the basal and intrinsic cause is activity of the nervous system with the using up of material which is not compensated for by the renewal which comes in repose and sleep. —  Disease and Its Causes

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