Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV THE SEXUAL PROBLEMS OF THE NEURASTHENIC The term neurasthenia has been used overtime to cover almost every functional trouble the real cause for which has been masked. It has entered into our daily conversation, advertisements and novels. Originally the term meant nerve exhaustion, but now any form of unfitness, from laziness to "the morning after," is tagged "neurasthenia." Before the present decade of preventive medicine the doctors had to have some name derived from the Greek or Latin in order to impress patients with the learning and dignity of the profession; just as the ancient seers surrounded themselves with mysteries and manipulations and the quacks of the past century with gorgeous medicine wagons, gayly decorated harness and caparisoned horses. Modern medical science, still in its investigating stages, realizes that there is always a determinable cause for effect. While this fact has always been accepted for natural phenomena, only lately has it been recognized as true in those cases of "nervous troubles" where the cause or causes are not ascertainable. We know that, in spite of the fact that many cases of worry and mental uneasiness can show no cause, there is some real cause somewhere. Under these conditions we generally look to inheritance. Laziness is the effect of a diseased state; so is chronic or periodic drunkenness, hysteria and sexual excesses. Just where nervous exhaustion enters as a factor is never certain. That is, are the excesses due to an inherited nervous exhaustion, or is the nervous exhaustion due to the excesses? Individual cases generally determine the question. As a rule, inheritance is the cause. The individual is born with a nervous instability and the excesses are merely symptoms of this inheritance. It ha...
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