‘Neurasthenia gastrica’ revisited: perceptions of nerve-gut interactions in nervous exhaustion, 1880–1920

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Figure 1. Portrait of George Miller Beard, the ‘father’ of neurasthenia. (Wikimedia Public Domain).

Figure 2. An illustration of electrotherapy (general faradization), a commonly used treatment for neurasthenia. Julius Althaus, 1873. Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection.

Figure 3. Portrait of Silas Weir Mitchell, the man behind the famous rest cure. (Wikimedia Public Domain).