Word: neurasthenia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sane. A genius is a deviate from the normal. In deviation there is hope, strength, unique value. Much of the most important work of the world has been done by men who have paid the penalty for their achievements in terms of their handicaps. Men are more susceptible to neurasthenia than women, women more prone to hysteria...
...average learned man in Philadelphia last week. The younger ones were slender. All had big hips and small chests, long legs, short arms, slim hands, feet, toes, fingers. Most were baldheaded, most wore eyeglasses. The eyes, deep-set, showed high intelligence. But most eyes showed the shiftiness of neurasthenia, sometimes the glitter of insanity. They all had high, brainy foreheads, thin skulls, prominent narrow noses, prominent chins, small mouths, rotten, few and irregular teeth. Faces were pimply, blotched and lined from organic disease...
WILL someone HELP gentleman, 30, ex-service; no income: ill, severe neurasthenia; with cost of treatment??Write Box D.1761, The Times, E.C.4...
...mass advertisers and female novelists desirous of articulating Big He-Men; for, since Cole's day, tobacco has sunk to a low place in literature. The cigar usually proceeds from the stained teeth and loose lips of Mammon. The cigaret has become a stock in- gredient of feminism and neurasthenia...
...body, emotions of combat and effort, blood pressure, pigmentation, sex development. They have a " cortex " or rind, the active principle of which has not yet been isolated, and a " medulla " or core, source of adrenalin (TIME, April 4). Failure or insufficiency of suprarenal action causes various disorders, depression, neurasthenia, discolored skin and the so-called Addison's disease. The exact objective of Dr. Banting's new research is not known. He plaintively protests: " The greatest service people could render me would be to leave me alone to my work...