Asthenia: Clinical Types and Principles of Therapy
Authors: EDWARD L. BORTZ
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1932)

Article1 September 1932Asthenia: Clinical Types and Principles of TherapyEDWARD L. BORTZ, M.D., F.A.C.P., GEORGE MORRIS PIERSOL, M.D., F.A.C.P.EDWARD L. BORTZ, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, GEORGE MORRIS PIERSOL, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-6-3-319 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn these times of stress with life being lived at an ever increasing pace and with financial burdens, familial cares and a multitude of other distressing factors putting a strain on the physical, mental and emotional powers, the subject of asthenia has become an important one. The term "Asthenia", in common with a number of the other terms current in medical parlance, is not used critically but is applied without discrimination to all types of weakness, debility, depression constitutional inadequacy, or even nervous instability. It is customary to regard as asthenia, the state of weakness manifested in the course of...References1 DANO : La douleur gastrique et l'asthénie, Rev. gén. de clin. et de therap., 1930, xliv, 657-663. Google Scholar2 LOEPERBAUMANN MJ: La léiasthénie, Presse méd., 1929, xxxvii, 1165-1167. Google Scholar3 FLANDINJEAN-GALLOIS C: Contribution à l'é tude des hypotonies; astigmatisme, asthénie, hypotension artérielle, Presse méd., 1931, xxxix, 918-921. Google Scholar4 BRACHET JL: Mémoire sur l'asthénie. 1829, Gabon, Paris. Google Scholar5 LONDE P: L'asthénie, La Semaine méd., 1905, xxv, 157-160. Google Scholar6 BENON R: L'asthénie en clinique nerveuse et générale, Bull. méd. Paris, 1928, xlii, 39-42. 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