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CFS by other names...
In my play on The Illness and
Death of Edgar Allan Poe (presented Monday to a standing room only
crowd at the National Library of Medicine that really liked it), I
included the following list of all the many names that I have found
for the syndrome first named neurasthenia in April 1869, up to the
most recent proposal of Chronic Neuroendocrineimmune Dysfunction
Syndrome. (I'm sure there are still some I've missed! Please let me
know if you know of more).
The dates refer to the year of
the earliest (and often only one) published paper I could find that
defines the disease. I posted an earlier version of this some years
ago. This one is considerably expanded and may be reposted freely
provided this text is kept with it and the list is not changed in any
way.
--Albert Donnay, MCSRR
Neurasthenia and its
subtypes
1869 Neurasthenia
1869 Neurasthenia
(undifferentiated)
1889 Neurasthenia Praecox
1891 Female Neurasthenia
1893 Syphilitic Neurasthenia
1895 Senile Neurasthenia
1875 Spinal Neurasthenia, AKA
Railway Spine
1886 Sexual Neurasthenia
1890 Psychosomatic Neurasthenia
c.1900
Neurasthenia Chemicorum
c.1900
Angiopathic Neurasthenia
c.1900
Cardiovascular Neurasthenia
c.1900
Cerebral Neurasthenia
c.1900
Neurasthenia Gravis
c.1900
Pulsating Neurasthenia
1906
Gastric Neurasthenia
1906 Tropical Neurasthenia
1907 Traumatic Neurasthenia
1907 Endocrine Neurasthenia
1907 Ocular Neurasthenia
1909 Battleship Neurasthenia
Alternate Diagnoses Proposed for the Same Syndrome
1871 Irritable Heart, aka Da Costa's Syndrome
1892 Hyperaesthesia
1895 Anxiety Neurosis
1904 Fibrositis
1904 Phrenasthenia
1906 Psychasthenia
1914 Shell Shock Syndrome
1916 Battle Fatigue, AKA Soldier's
Heart
1918 War Neurosis
1930 Heat, Cold and Effort
Sensitiveness
1930 Allergic Toxemia
1936 Morbid Industrial Fatigue
1938 Neurocirculatory Asthenia, AKA
Effort Syndrome
1941 Chronic Fatigue
1945 Allergic Fatigue & Weakness
1950 Epidemic Neuromyasthenia, AKA
Icelandic Disease, AKA Akureyri Fever
1952 Allergy of the Nervous System
1954 Cerebral Allergy
1955 Encephalomyelitis simulating
poliomyelitis, AKA Royal Free Hospital Disease
1956 Specific Adaptation Syndrome
1956 Benign Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis
1957 Epidemic Postinfectious
Neuromyasthenia
1965 Familial Dysautonomia, AKA
Riley-Day Syndrome
1965 Asthenic Neurosis
1966 Psycho-Vegetative Syndrome
1968 Pseudoneurasthenic Syndrome
1969 Idiopathic Hypogeusia
1973 Ecologic Mental Illness
1974 Epidemic Mass Hysteria
1975 Autonomic Dystonia
1975 * Fibromyalgia
1976 Organic Neurasthenia
1976 Neurasthenic Musculoskeletal
Pain Syndrome
1978 Mass Psychogenic Illness
1978 Psychic Possession
1978 Chemical Hypersusceptibility
1980 Neurasthenic Neurosis
1982 Total Allergy Syndrome
1982 Familial Chronic Mononucleosis
Syndrome
1983 * Sick
Building Syndrome
1984 Chronic Active Epstein
Barr Virus Syndrome
1984 Chronic Mononucleosis
1985 20th Century Syndrome
1986 Sporadic Postinfectious Neuromyesthenia
1986 Hypersensitivity Syndrome
1987
Darkroom Disease
1987 * Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
1987 * Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
1988 Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction
Syndrome
1990 Chronic Habitual Hyperventilation
Syndrome
1990 3 Types of Asthenia: Episodic, Recurrent
and Chronic
1994 Gulf War Syndrome
1996 Iatrogenic Hypochondriasis
1996 Multi-Organ Dysesthesia
1996 Idiopathic Environmental Intolerances
1997 3 Types of Gulf War Syndrome: Impaired
Cognition, Confusion Ataxia and Central Pain
1997 Chronic Pain and Fatigue Syndrome
1998 Toxicant Induced Loss of Tolerance
1998 Chronic Multisymptom Illness
1999 (Poe's) MUSES Syndrome, for
Multi-Sensory Sensitivity
2001
Chronic Neuroendocrineimmune Dysfunction Syndrome
(This last was proposed by DHHS
CFS Name Change Workgroup, which refused to even consider neurasthenia
or most of the other names on this list)
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