Book of Donmon Teith

As the United States rushed toward industrial and technological modernization in the late nineteenth century, people worried that the workplace had become too c

This dissertation proposes a metaphor for the years 1869 to 1930 drawn from medicine and unique to the period itself. This metaphor is the disease neurasthenia,

Neurasthenia, or "nerve weakness," was originally identified in the U.S. in the late-19th century as an urban disease, similar to today's chronic fatigue syndro