Word: neurasthenia
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...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...
ADAM'S RIB - An expensive, elaborate hash of cavemen, foreign revolutions, ex-kings, the Chicago wheat-pit in a state of acute neurasthenia, flappers, wayward mothers, and hokum...
Lecture. The Relation of Insanity to Neurasthenia. Dr. E. Cowles. Harvard Medical School...