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"Neurasthenic" Quotes from Famous Books

... remarked the Honourable George, with a palpable effort to speak the American brogue. "A most flighty beast he was—nerves all gone—I dare say a hopeless neurasthenic." ...

— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... saw is in my room. But I cannot put it together, for the bulk of the wooden parts I left behind at a vicarage in the country. It matters little now, my love for the thing is dulled. My neurasthenic friends, believe me, folk of our sort are useless as human beings, and we should not even do ...

— Wanderers • Knut Hamsun

... sides to every interview, you know. She said, 'If you don't see Miss Molly Dickett in your office before a year, doctor, I miss my guess. She's a neurasthenic for you, all right.' So what do ...

— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon

... of these apparently widely separated phenomena by the simple law of the discharge of energy by association perhaps explains the association of an abnormal tendency to tears with an abnormally low threshold for pain (Fig. 36). In the neurasthenic, tears and pain are produced with abnormal facility. Hence it is that, if a patient about to undergo a surgical operation is in a state of fear and dread before the operation, the threshold to all stimuli is lowered, and this lowered threshold will continue throughout the operation, even under ...

— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile

Words linked to "Neurasthenic" : diseased person, sufferer, sick person, neurasthenia