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Definition of Nervous prostration
1. Noun. An emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nervous Prostration
Literary usage of Nervous prostration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"It frequently precedes or progresses into nervous prostration. The distinction
between hysteria (qv) and neurasthenia is not always plain, ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"The following verdicts for nervous prostration in conjunction with other injuries
have been held not to warrant disturbance by the courts upon the ground of ..."
3. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"... troops— Captain Marty's company—nervous prostration—Arrows with messages—Skinned
alive—Gone to eternal rest—The physical and moral trials of the siege. ..."
4. A Manual of personal hygiene: Proper Living Upon a Physiological Basis by Walter Lytle Pyle (1917)
"Many of the cases of so-called nervous prostration are to be traced not simply
to the work or worry to which the individual may be subjected, ..."
5. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1897)
"nervous prostration. BY FD BAIN, MD, KENTON, OHIO. • nervous prostration or
neurasthenia is a functional disease, or more properly speaking a bodily ..."
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