SOME OBSERVATIONS ON NEURASTHENIA AND ITS TREATMENT
SOME OBSERVATIONS ON NEURASTHENIA AND ITS TREATMENT. WHEN, thirty-five years ago, the writer first made the acquaintance of what is now called neurasthenia, it was known as spinal irritation, and the best of modern researches have been unable to give a better definition beyond a functional disturbance of the spinal and cerebral nerves, dependent on a morbid process, for which “irritation” is as proper a term as any.