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The
chronic syndrome support association ( CSSA )
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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