NEUROSIS

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: Medical Dictionary · 1909 · p. 3

is a nervous disorder due to a disturbance in the normal working of the nervous system, but not to any morbid change of its structure, so far as present methods of research can discover. Neuralgia, hysteria, and some forms of insanity are examples. [s. 389]