Author: Cyril BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Neurasthenia
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Modern Malady; Or, Sufferers from "nerves."
Author: Cyril BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Neurasthenia
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Modern Malady, Or Sufferers from "nerves"...
Author: Cyril BennettThe Modern Malady
Author: Cyril BennettPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507848166
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
IN the first part of this work I have dwelt on the errors in our mode of treating Neurasthenia, consequent on the wide ignorance of the subject which still prevails; in the second part, I have drawn attention to the principal causes of the malady. The allegory forming the Introduction to Part I. gives a brief history of nervous exhaustion and the modes of treatment which have at various times been thought suitable to this most painful and trying disease. A friend, to whom I read the Introduction, criticised the quotation with which I have concluded it. She objected that I thereby gave too high a place to mere knowledge. I replied that I referred to the highest kind of knowledge. This argument, however, fails to satisfy those who persistently remind one of Eve's transgression. In my humble opinion, the point of that great and instructive history has always been missed. Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden for eating of the tree of knowledge, but if they had not been cast out of Eden, how could they have been received into heaven? It was necessary to eat of the tree of knowledge in order to desire to eat of the tree of life.
The Modern Malady, Or Sufferers from "nerves", by Cyril Bennett,... with a Preface by Herbert Tibbits,...
Author: Cyril BennettCultures of Neurasthenia
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004333401
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was ‘invented’ in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern disease crossed the Atlantic. Neurasthenia became much less ‘popular’ in Britain or the Netherlands than in Germany. Neurasthenia’s heyday continued into the first decade of the twentieth century. The label referred to conditions similar to those currently labelled as chronic fatigue syndrome. Why this rise and fall of neurasthenia, and why these differences in popularity This book, which emerged out of an Anglo-Dutch-German conference held in June 2000, explores neurasthenia’s many-sided history from a comparative perspective.
Nervous Acts
Author: G. RousseauPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230505155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
These essays demonstrate the sweeping influence of the human nervous system on the rise of literature and sensibility in early modern Europe. The brain and nerves have usually been treated as narrow topics within the history of science and medicine. Now George Rousseau, an international authority on the relations of literature and medicine, demonstrates why a broader context is necessary. The nervous system was a crucial factor in the rise of recent civilization. More than any other body part, it holds the key to understanding how far back the strains and stresses of modern life - fatigue, depression, mental illness - extend.
The Eternally Wounded Woman
Author: Patricia Anne VertinskyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719025259
Category : Exercise
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Journal of Mental Science
Author: The Scots Observer
Author: Publisher and Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1830
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.