American nervousness, 1903 : an anecdotal history

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American nervousness, 1903 : an anecdotal history

Tom Lutz

Cornell University Press, 1991

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  • : pbk

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1903

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-317) and index

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Hysteria, insomnia, hypochondria, asthma, skin rashes, hay fever, premature baldness, inebriety, nervous exhaustion, brain-collapse--all were symptoms of neurasthenia, the bizarre psychophysiological illness that plagued America's intellectual and economic elite around the turn of the century.

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