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By David G. Schuster

Because the usa rushed towards business and technological modernization within the overdue 19th century, humans nervous that the place of work had develop into too aggressive, the financial system too turbulent, household chores too taxing, whereas new machines had created a fast paced surroundings that sickened the country. Physicians testified that, undoubtedly, glossy civilization used to be inflicting a number of ills—everything from irritability to insomnia, lethargy to weight-loss, nervousness to loss of ambition, and indigestion to impotence. They referred to as this neurasthenia.

Neurasthenic kingdom investigates how the concept that of neurasthenia helped medical professionals and sufferers, women and men, and advertisers and shoppers negotiate adjustments typically linked to “modernity.” Combining a survey of clinical and renowned literature on neurasthenia with unique learn into infrequent data of non-public letters, sufferer documents, and company documents, David Schuster charts the emergence of a “neurasthenic nation”—a position the place humans observed their own wellbeing and fitness as inextricably tied to the pitfalls and chances of a altering international.

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Mitchell, whose distinguished career spanned more than half a century, was a consummate physician as well as a successful author, poet, and regional celebrity—a man of status with an elite clientele. Although Beard deserves credit for weaving a compelling narrative around neurasthenia and aggressively promoting the diagnosis, it was Mitchell who affirmed the illness as a distinctly personal, introspective experience that warranted treatments designed to be transformative events of self-improvement.

To begin with, people had to shrug off the expectation that they participate in all aspects of American liberty; this would unburden citi­ zens of anxiety and allow them to excel in fields of their own choosing, an event that Beard believed would lead to an intellectual and artistic rebirth within America. ”34 Schuster, David G.. Neurasthenic Nation : America's Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869-1920. : Rutgers University Press, . ppg=38 Copyright © Rutgers University Press. All rights reserved.

3 In the years before the first articles on neuras­ thenia appeared, doctors such as George Cheyne (1671-1743), Thomas Trotter (1760-1832), and George Hayden (1798-1857) all connected a perceived spike in nervous diseases to the increasingly urban character of their nations— Cheyne and Trotter were Britons and Hayden, Irish—a theme upon which the neurasthenia diagnosis would later capitalize. They wrote for the literate pub­ lic, not simply for fellow physicians, and in the process helped shaped both the professional and the popular understanding of what nervous illness repre­ sented.

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