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"The first and second editions of this work bore the name of our dear and lamented teacher, Professor Proust, as well as our own. In preparing this third edition we have been deprived of his valuable collaboration, which we are desirous of commemorating. The hygiene of the Neurasthenic is the same to-day as yesterday, and we have had no fundamental modifications to make in our original work. We have thought it necessary however to render it more complete on certain points. In this edition will be found some new sections which were not in those that preceded it. The word Neurasthenia is one of those that are so much abused, by being employed wrongly and without discernment, that we have deemed it useful to render its clinical signification more precise, and to devote several pages to the diagnosis of the affections to which it is unfittingly applied. We have made some necessary additions to the chapters on psychotherapeutics and on the dietetic regime of Neurasthenics. We have thought that it is not superfluous to mention certain new developments in the hygiene and treatment of the intestinal disorders that are so frequent in nervous asthenia. Treatment and hygiene are so closely related that it is very difficult to separate them, and it would be arbitrary to try to do so. Such as it is, to-day as yesterday, this little book does not claim to be a dogmatic treatise on Neurasthenia, but an abstract in which we have tried to set forth briefly and as clearly as possible the rules and facts which should guide the clinician in practice"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Neurasthenia.