Download or read book American Nervousness, 1903 written by Tom Lutz and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hysteria, insomnia, hypochondria, asthma, skin rashes, hay fever, premature baldness, inebriety, nervous exhaustion, brain-collapse--all were symptoms of neurasthenia, the bizarre psychophysiological illness that plagued America's intellectual and economic elite around the turn of the century.