From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Neurasthenia
Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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In article <1993Apr21.174553.812@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:

>responds well, if you're not otherwise immunocompromised.  Noring's
>anal-retentive idee fixe on having a fungal infection in his sinuses
>is not even in the same category here, nor are these walking neurasthenics
>who are convinced they have "candida" from reading a quack book.

Speaking of which, has anyone else been impressed with how much the 
descriptions of neurasthenia published a century ago sound like CFS?

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