Beard, with his partner A.D. Rockwell, advocated first electrotherapy and then increasingly experimental treatments for people with<unk> , a position that was controversial. An 1868 review posited that Beard's and Rockwell's knowledge of the scientific method was suspect and did not believe their claims to be warranted. William James was diagnosed with<unk> , which he nicknamed 'Americanitis', and was quoted as saying, "I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide." In 1895, Sigmund Freud reviewed electrotherapy and declared it a "pretense treatment." He emphasized the example of Elizabeth von R's note that "the stronger these were the more they seemed to push her own pains into the background." Nevertheless,<unk>  was a common diagnosis during World War I for "shell shock", but its use declined a decade later. Soldiers who deserted their post could be executed even if they had a medical excuse, but officers who had<unk>  were not executed.
Neurasthenia
Tropical ataxic neuropathy
Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome
Multiple system atrophy
Congenital myasthenic syndrome
Metabolic myopathy
Autophagic vacuolar myopathy
Polyneuropathy