George Miller Beard - bibliography

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Biography

American physician and neurologist, born May 8, 1839, Montville, Connecticut; died January 23, 1883, New York.

Bibliography

  • Electricity as a tonic. New York?, 1866.
  • Our home physician. 1869.
  • Neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion.
    Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1869; 80: 217-221.
  • Eating and drinking. 1871.
  • Stimulants and narcotics. 1871.
  • A Practical Treatise on the Medical and Surgical Use of Electricity, Including Localized and General Electrization.
    With Alphonse David Rockwell (1840-1933). New York, William Wood, 1871.
  • Neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion.
    Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1869; 80: 217-221.
  • Hay-fever or summercatarrh. 1876.
  • The Scientific Basis of Delusions. 1877.
  • The Nature and Diagnosis of Neurasthenia.
    New York Medical Journal, 1879; 29.
  • American Nervousness, With its Causes and Consequences.
    1880. (Nervous exhaustion, neurasthenia).
    Second edition edited by Beard.
    German translation by Albert Neisser (1855-1916), Leipzig, 1881, 1883.
  • Sea sickness: its symptoms nature and treatment.
    1881. Recommending bromkalium.
  • The case of Guiteau: a psychological study. 1882.
  • Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion (neurasthenia), its symptoms, nature, sequences, Treatment. New York, 1884.
  • Sexual Neurasthenia. New York, 1884.
  • Die sexuelle Neurasthenie, ihre Hygiene, Aetiologie, Symptome und Behandlung. Mit einem Capitel über die Diät für Nervenkranke. Deutsche Ausgabe. Wien, 1885.nX + 183 pages.
  • Nervous Exhaustion.
    With Alphonse David Rockwell. New York, 1903.
We thank Rudolf Kleinert, Bad Reichenhall, Germany, for information submitted.

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