ANTICIPATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF NEURO-CIRCULATORY ASTHENIA
Authors: John T. King
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1942)

Article1 May 1942ANTICIPATION AND DIAGNOSIS OF NEURO-CIRCULATORY ASTHENIAJOHN T. KING, F.A.C.P.JOHN T. KING, F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-16-5-941 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn the midst of World War I, when American physicians were widely scattered, meetings of such representative groups as this were unknown. It is likely that many medical officers of the armed Services, absorbed in their various duties, heard little of a condition known to certain of their colleagues as the irritable heart of soldiers, or neuro-circulatory asthenia or, perhaps, the effort syndrome. Some were satisfied with the official terminology D.A.H. (disordered action of the heart). Those who remained in civil posts had little interest in the matter, since the disorder, by and large, is not a peace-time problem. 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