nervous complaint

People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking.

"She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks."

People are going to suffer less from nervous complaints.

Your people all look like they've got the nervous complaint, Dorgan."

Beginning in 1861, Semmelweis suffered from various nervous complaints.

A medical certificate showed Zhivkov, 79, to be suffering from a range of physiological and nervous complaints.

But a very moderate drinking bout would be extremely likely to bring a chronic nervous complaint to a disastrous end.

Denham's "nervous complaint" meant that he relied increasingly on his subordinates.

"What sort of nervous complaint?"

"His illness was described to us as a nervous complaint, caused by the death of his wife, and by the proceedings which had followed it.

It is a disease to be borne with patience, like any other nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

John Shaw overcame the embarrassing loss of his hair due a nervous complaint, alopecia, while at Bristol City.

He effectively confines her there, giving out that she suffers from a nervous complaint, and making the occasional public appearance with her to quell any gossip.

The first was a converted former Franciscan convent, and was used to house male patients who were "affected with the different forms of lunacy, uncomplicated, however, with other nervous complaints."

Because Laudanum was widely available and widely used as an analgesic as well as a general sedative, many people were given the drug for all sorts of medical and nervous complaints.

"Any idiot with a nervous complaint could get up onstage and die and have it witnessed by a paying audience," she thinks, comparing the experience with "making vegans watch a seal cull."

On 11 October 1939 speaking to Hassel of German war crimes in Poland, Goerdeler commented that both General Halder and Admiral Canaris were afflicted with nervous complaints as a result of "our brutal conduct of the war" in Poland.

Much to my relief, there are no celebrated murderesses among them, but only what the worthy Dr. Workman of Toronto terms "the innocent insane," as well as the usual sufferers from nervous complaints, and the inebriates and syphilitics; although of course one does not find the same afflictions among the well-to-do as among the poor.